A Side Note: The US Postal Service is issuing an Edgar Allan Poe Stamp this Jan. 16th. In 2009, the U.S. Postal Service commemorates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, one of America’s most extraordinary poets and fiction writers. For more than a century and a half, Poe and his works have been praised by admirers around the world, including English poet laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson, who dubbed Poe “the literary glory of America.” British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle called him “the supreme original short story writer of all time.” The stamp portrait of Edgar Allan Poe is by award-winning artist Michael J. Deas, whose research over the years has made him well acquainted with Poe’s appearance. In 1989, Deas published The Portraits and Daguerreotypes of Edgar Allan Poe, a comprehensive collection of images featuring authentic likenesses as well as derivative portraits. Scheduled issue date: Jan. 16 in Richmond, VA.

After the storms moved through this morning, and the dark skies dissappeared.... The Sun is out and Blue Skies are about !!

We do that, in a similar sort of way on July 4th ....

34 F winds 17 mph, wind chill 12 .... It's COLD

79 Degrees F - Sunny

BTY, the closest Full Moon of 2009, will be on Jan. 9th........ http://www.jackstargazer.com/scripts0SG0848.html

Well, Friday night, I looked up at the Moon, and this noght there were some clouds in the area..... What was special about tonoght's viewing was the large cloud circle around the moon.... THat was nice to look at...... But still, the brillance of the Moon around midnight Thursday evening was something !

Another astronomical treat that could be seen tonight and for the next two nights is the annual Geminid meteor shower, one of the year’s best displays of shooting stars. Up to 100 meteors an hour can fly across the sky. The meteors, which are easy to spot with the naked eye, appear to shoot out from the constellation Gemini, hence their name, but they can be seen all over the sky. However, with a full moon so bright, the best place to look is away from the Moon. Meteor showers happen when the Earth passes through clouds of debris shed from comets. As the tiny fragments smash into the Earth’s upper atmosphere at about 100,000mph, they burn up in streaks of light. For reasons that are not understood, the Geminid meteor showers are tending to grow stronger each year.

If the full moon tonight looks unusually large, it is not your imagination – it is the biggest and brightest full moon to be seen for 15 years. Each month the Moon makes a full orbit around the Earth in a slightly oval-shaped path, and tonight it will swing by the Earth at its closest distance, or perigee. It will pass by 356,613km (221,595 miles) away, which is about 28,000km closer than average. The unusual feature of tonight is that the perigee also coincides with a full moon, which will make it appear 14 per cent bigger and some 30 per cent brighter than most full moons this year – so long as the clouds hold off from blocking the view. In addition to this lunar flypast, much of Britain may also be treated to a strange phenomenon known as the moon illusion. As the Moon rises in the late afternoon, it will appear even larger as it lies close to the horizon. Psychologists have tried to explain this as a trick of the eye, as the landscape on the horizon appears to make the Moon loom much larger, an effect that disappears as the Moon rises above the horizon, although viewing it through a tube, such as a toilet roll, can make it look large again. With the Moon approaching so close to the Earth, its gravity will pull a slightly higher tide than normal for a full moon. This so-called perigeal tide adds about 0.5m (1.6ft) to the high-water mark, and with freshening southwesterly winds forecast, this may cause some flooding, especially along parts of the South West coast. Tonight’s full moon is also notable for rising to its greatest height in the night sky for the entire year, lying almost overhead at midnight. This is because we are approaching the winter solstice, on December 21, and thanks to the tilt of the Earth the Moon appears at its highest, as the Sun is at its lowest.

From Yesterday ? ? ? ?

But does she feel guilty.... like the chick in Heavy metal that had sex with a machine ??

The Moon shining bright directly overhead tonight against the clear crisp Fall night was marvelous.

Researching Bikini Waxing on Wikipedia

And I'd like to plainly see a Brazilian bikini waxing . . .

Whith the wind chill in the teens for Dallas yesterday...... LIVE "NO QUARTER" was the feast of the day !

I think you're in love with Beautiful -- Make-up....... I would like to see each of theses beauties without ANY make-up, to see how naturally beautiful they are. Make-up and air-brush make people appear beautiful enough...... I love natural beauty, wherever I find it..... Always Will !!

ZZ TOP -- Got to have have me some: "Brown Sugar" Studio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6NtaSW6Mio and Live http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4AYkS7sA6E

The Led Zeppelin Channel For a Limited time Nov. 1, 2008 through Dec. 31, 2008 XM - CH 39 Sirius - CH 33 There's also an AC/DC Channel, CH 53 on XM, and CH 19 on Sirius. It's going through Jan. 14, 2009 Holiday Music is on CH 36, and Christmas Carols are XM-CH 37 You can also listen online for free at AOL Radio. The Quality is Good. Various Channels Available including 12 Christmas Music Channels, I like the Classic Christmas carols and songs channel....I put it on my preset, along with the Jazz Holiday and Rock Holiday Channels http://music.aol.com/radioguide/bb

Agreed..... Fancy a blow job from 'er though ...

A friend of mine told me that the 2010 Chev. V8 Camero that he ordered will be made in Canada. Ottawa, I believe. It's due to be deliverd in June or July 2009. He said that initially, none of the Chev. 2010 Cameros will be made in the USA.... And that Chev. chose the Canadian plant to assemle the Cameros because they wanted one of the best plants in NA to do it.

When you want to look at a large field of view in the night sky, a telescope's power will usually narrow the field too much, so that you cannot see that wide a field. But, ordinary binoculars will get that field nicely. I suggest 50mm binoculars, 7X or 10X. There's comes a point when the binoculars become too heavy/big to hold steady. People have made or bought stands for their large binoculars. Some of the stands adapt nicely to the viewer being in a reclined position, as in a lawn chair, looking high up into the night sky. The best instrument to scan the Milky Way is binoculars. Also, when meteor showers are happening, you can best track them with binoculars. You can spend under a $100 for some nice binoculars..... But, like anything related to lenses, there are very finely made binoculars that cost over a $1000.

Pink Flyod's live performances, along with their good studio work, is what allows them to be in the category of world's greatest rock bands. None of the music that is considered un-melodic nosie will ever change my opinion of them. My opinion of the greatness of PF is without......WITHOUT considering their double-album THE WALL. They deserve the recognition....... and they are not the most overrated band in the world..... I don't know who that title would go to...

"Pearl Necklace" -- ZZ TOP The riff just keeps on going, and going, and going .... on and on.... in my little mind...

December night sky: deep winter darkness is best for stargazing Some of the year’s best observing can be found under the dark skies and early nights of December, a month marked this year by a series of conjunctions and the return of Saturn to full prominence. Any clear night brings a chance to glimpse the winter sky, but look particularly for those days when the sky is a dark, deep blue. This is a sign of good “seeing”, the steady, haze-free atmosphere that astronomers crave. The first, and most spectacular, of the conjunctions takes place the evening of Monday, December 1, 2008, when the Moon, Jupiter and Venus put on a celestial show. The Moon will be a crescent low down in the south west, with Jupiter just two degrees above it. The real action starts, though, at 15.46 (in London; allow ten minutes either way elsewhere in the country) when Venus slips behind the Moon. The event therefore starts just before sunset, but the Moon should be obvious and Venus a naked-eye object just off the Moon’s dark limb. Jupiter, at magnitude -1.8 compared with Venus’s -4.0 (as with golf handicaps, the brightest stars have the lowest numbers), will be harder to see, but should still be visible in binoculars. If you do use an optical aid, be very careful to keep the Sun out of the field of view; even the weak December sun is very dangerous. The occultation ends with Venus emerging from the bright side of the Moon at 17.16 (in London), by which time the sky should be dark. If clouds intervene this evening, you can still enjoy the sight of the Moon’s close approach to Jupiter and faint, fleeting Mercury very low down on the 29th at about 17.00, or to Venus much higher in the sky at the same time on New Year’s Eve. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_...icle5262970.ece