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Home Page || vj4HimIndex || Thursday,
November 1, 2007--
Got a last-minute call to work. Didn't get much sleep. Hopefully, will
sleep well today. Have court Friday morning. Been watching comet Holmes
since Monday evening. I took Benny and three of his friends and grandpa
to the pumpkin patch at the Fruit Barn. The boys had fun running around
in the hay maze. We all fed the ducks and fish. The ducks seemed to be
stuffed and weren't eating much. The fish seemed to be pretty full too,
but some were eating our wheat bread and bagels. The fish and ducks
didn't like the white bread.
I got to pet the emu for the first time
in about six
or seven years! I saw someone petting the emu's neck, so I gave it a
try, and the emu was very tame. A little girl gave me the rest of her
fish food to feed the emu! Amazing, the emu took the fish food from my
hand very gently! The emu is still in the cage with the black pigs, the
same pigs that were snoring loudly last year!
The sky was overcast, with dark coulds
rolling in
.... sprinkled a bit, then started thundering, with a nice display of
lightning. I thought for sure that I wouldn't be able to see the comet.
We stopped off at the store for milk, then the lightning and thunder
really put on a good show. When we got home the sky was still couldy,
but started clearing up, and around 7:00 I started searching for the
comet, but there was a small patch of clouds where the comet should be.
I kept looking and about 8:05 found the comet! It only took me about
five seconds to find the comet. I pointed out the comet to one of our
neighbors, Benny and Jovita. This is the first comet that Benny has
ever seen!! I haven't seen a comet since Hyakutake in 1997.
Comet Holmes is almost directly overhead
now, at
around 1:30 a.m. It is getting fainter each night. I missed the show
last week, when comet Holmes gave off quite a show, when it increased
in magnitude. Here are some interesting links on the comet Holmes -- Star
Map Comet Holmes -- Earth
& Sky (another good locater map) --
Here is a map
to help you find comet Holmes. Early in the evening,
around 7:00, start searching for the comet, below Cassiopeia, just to
the left of Perseus. You will find a triangle including two starts, and
the comet at the lower left of the triangle. I can just barely make out
the very faint comet Holmes with my eyes. Using my 12x50 binocluars
shows the comet as a large fuzzy ball.
Here is an enlarged and even better night sky map to help you locate
comet Holmes along with some constellations and starts -- SkyandTelescope
-- Here is a large picture of comet Holmes -- Comet17PHolmes/GaryWKronk/October282007
-- CometHolmes/IgorChekalin/October292007
-- CometHolmesPhotoGallery
--
More awesome photos of Comet Holmes, by Dan Lessmann, at -- Catching
Light --
Sunday,
November 11, 2007-- I had to create another
Angelfire account, because I lost my login information, and have no way
to retrieve the information, which is being sent to an unknown e-mail
address. So, I'm starting all over .... My free memory space on
Angelfire is very limited, so there isn't much space for pictures. I
will post a few very small pictures whenever possible. Otherwise, I
will post links to the pictures, or to my DreamHost website, which has
plenty of space for pictures (not free!).
If you want to see my complete blogs,
please click on this link AndrewsBlogs which
will take you to my DreamHost website, with hundreds of great
pictures!! Grandpa went to church this morning with Jovita. They had a
special memorial service for Veterans Day. My dad received a special
medal for serving in and with the military! He has served in the Korean
War, Vietnam War, Gulf War, and several others ....
I took a look at comet Holmes last night, around
7:00. Couldn't find the comet from the front, because the street lamp
was too bright, so I had to look from the back yard. I was amazed at
how much the coma has expanded! Comet Holmes appeared to have doubled
in size, since I last saw it about four or five nights ago. The comet
is getting fainter .... I found lots of pictures of comet Holmes to
show my dad.
Scripture
for today: Proverbs ,
" Psalm
19:1,
"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of
his hands."
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