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NASA has tickled my fancy again with Mission to Jupiter and then there's this: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-018 ... I will just pause here for a few seconds while you all work out how unbelievably cool that is. Oh and I promise I will be back with astro stuff soon - promise. Just doing a lot of photography atm, including stars - and yes I have images for you ... soon!

Also! Wooo!  Made it the top of a google search ... here, try it.  Course you'd have to be looking for tiny lions :D

Tiny Lions

Last night was Leonid season, with the peak apparently happening around 10 this morning.  Went out about 3:30 in the am and of course all I saw was clouds, and the occasional star, in between the clouds. "Where are these tiny lions?" I asked myself.  Then ranted for about an hour to my flatmate about clouds.

Am getting very very sick of clouds, have not had a clear night for quite a while now.  I am, in fact, considering either moving to a desert - where there isn't enough moisture to form clouds, or constructing some kind of evil genius doomsday device to rip a hole in the sky.

In other news - am getting fairly familiar with the Canon hack, so this is good, not that I have anywhere to use it. And I have started the search for a stepping motor - more electronics fun - but if anyone has an old stepping/servo motor that they no longer want, need or would be prepared to trade ... let me know?  Prefer one I don't have to assemble :)

In final news - Happy Birthday to my partner in cheap optics and weird telescope hacks, Bill!