lunes, 29 de marzo de 2010

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.

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  1. Flying Pink Spaghetti., now that is something I have never seen... However, today I heard some Robins singing in a tree...

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