"Just A Dream" by Nelly - Sam Tsui & Christina Grimmie

TORNEO CHICLANA CONJUNTOS 2010, RITMICO COLOMBINO, CATEGORIA BENJAMIN

Here is Natalia from last week in her competition

Fisherman's Blues The Waterboys

I LLLLLLLOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEE THIS SONG LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cotopaxi Volcano Time Lapse Movie

Very impressive sky

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Blog This! : Communicate - Google Chrome Help

I only actually saw 4 of it´s moons.

Saturn and it´s moons

I just wanted to put this image from stellarium in my blog to remember how the moons were arranged around Saturn last night. This was the very first time for me to see Saturn in a telescope. It looked like a painting to me. I was in awe

2 down 2 to go

So yesterday it was Ganymede and today I got to see Io. Maybe if I am lucky and I get up at 6:45 tomorrow it will still be dark enough to see Europa and Callisto.

This has been a special Day indeed for me. It started with Ganymede and ended with this cool Sun Pilar. I don´t know if I will be able to sleep tonight!

Natalia "FLYING"

Ganymede

I am soooo happy. The clouds finally let me get a glimpse of Jupiter this morning at 7 a.m. and LO AND BEHOLD my new 10 X 50 Bressers allowed me to see FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE "GANYMEDE" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OH HAPPY DAAAAAY (oh happy day)

From Nasa's APOD

This photo is so overwhelmingly powerful!

Eva Cassidy - Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Beautiful!

Isla 15 de Abril gr

Here is Natalia in her first Competition

One-Minute Astronomer - Basic Astronomy For Busy People

One-Minute Astronomer - Basic Astronomy For Busy People

Cabellera de Berenices

Binocular Star Studies:


Cool so so cool, this open very open star cluster is a delight to the eye. I saw it for the first time tonight thanks to "One Minute Astronomer" which recounts the story taken from "Stargazing for Beginners"…

“The young Queen Berenice, when her husband was called away to the wars, vowed to sacrifice her beautiful tresses to Venus if he returned victorious over his enemies.

He did return home in triumph, and Berenice, true to her vow, cut off her hair and bore it to the Temple of Venus. But the same night it disappeared. The king was furious, and the queen wept bitterly over the loss.

There is no telling what might have happened to the guardians of the temple, had not a celebrated astronomer named Conon led the young king and queen aside in the evening and showed them the missing locks shining transfigured in the sky. He assured them that Venus had placed Berenice’s lustrous ringlets among the stars, and, as they were not skilled in celestial lore, they were quite ready to believe that the silvery swarm they saw near Arcturus had never been there before.

And so for centuries the world has recognized the constellation of Berenice’s Hair.”

After finding that, I went on to find M3 which I did see for the first time tonight. I must mention that I could not see Andromeda with the telescope due to it sinking into the northern horizon and foggyish lower atmosphere. Of course the weather let me see Venus and Mercury again. I made a low quality video of it yesterday. Its on You Tube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo-Yl5QSQwI

Nor could I see M 38, 36 nor 37 in Auriga. I know where they are but the visibility in this town is not that great. I did see the double cluster of Perseus with both the binocs and the telescope. Wow so many stars in there. Ok So also looked at Mars , Saturn M42 in Orions sword, the Pleiades, the Hyades and got to know the whole constellation of Leo finally. oh yes and charted the meteorite Vesta again. Right now it´s next to e Leonis It will be changing apparent direction after April 6th. Epsilon Auriga seems to be brighter again at 3.8 or even 3.75. I usually see it as 3.9 I checked to see when Algol will be eclipsing again and maybe on April the 17-18 I will get to watch it eclipse at 00:29 if the weather colaborates. So, I had a nice evening once again.

Today Natalia and I learned how to fix a flat bike tire from video on internet. This Lady is so funny the way she stares into the camera, http://es.video.yahoo.com/watch/2820112/8193249

WE DID IT yay!!!!!!!!!! with duct tape and glue. Hope it lasts.

Meteoritos during last week of March

This week has been absolutely fantastic!  I have been able to see Venus and Mercury at sunset.  And last Thursday. (I think)  I saw a falling star slowly drop pass the waxing moon. It had a long tail and was yellowish.  I´ve  watched Vesta move to the west edge of Leo.  I turned off my lights for an hour on Saturday to support the global hour ( http://www.earthhour.org/ )and on Sunday morning woke up to watch 5 hours of a Messier marathon.  On Sunday night as Natalia and I were looking through the binoculars at the church bells lit up for holy week, Natalia exclaimed "Mommy look" with a loud exited voice. I grabbed the binoculars and saw 8 pink flamingos migrating to the west wetlands near Isla Cristina. WOW I had to laugh because they look like long pink spaghetti flying over the town. Ok so I used this as an excuse to teach some astro-biology ;) to my daughter. I asked "Do you know why they are migrating at night and how do they know where to go" I then went on to explain to her how to find "Polaris" the north star. Twas a nice evening.