astronomy

By Ken Korczak

Is there such a thing as real faries? Could they really exist? Actually, it's more than possible. Consider:

He was one of the most brilliant and energetic astronomers of the previous century. George Ellory Hale was the driving force behind building the world’s largest observatory till then -- the 200-inch glass giant of Palomar. He also revolutionized our understanding of the sun, inventing the spectroheliograph, with which he made his discoveries of the solar vortices and magnetic fields of sun spots.

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I have found a special niche at Write Niche - my Kiwi blog...

I was very pleased to be given a special opportunity to join this niche site, and hope I can write some interesting posts about my beloved little country whose achievements in so may fields of endeavour during the last 167 years clearly indicate that we punch well above our weight, to use a boxing euphenism.

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The annual Leonid Meteor Shower will occur this weekend. It's sure to be an amazing show as at it's expected to show around 150 shooting stars an hour at it's peak.

Seeing this in the news this morning reminded me of a time a few years ago. Me and this guy I was dating and some of our friends went camping. We took his boat out to an island on the bay and that's where we set up camp.

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