Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> On 20/09/2012 03:28 PM, James Holsenback wrote:
> > Astronomy is 2012 photographer of the year ... some of the composites
> > are really stunning. I particularly like the ones that drive home the
> > point that we are just a tiny speck in the scheme of things, kind of
> > makes you wonder how long before we finally get over ourselves.
>
> Every time I look at something like this, I can't help thinking "if only
> the resolution was higher..."
>

And you could zoom in.

> Also: In what part of the world are stars actually visible to the naked
> eye at night?

Years ago I was driving in the bush in Australia. Whan I stopped the car at
night and looked up. I almost fell over backwards, the sky was so full of stars.
They looked a solid mass compaired to metropolitan European skys.

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