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Saturday, August 13, 2005 dancingdancingdancingdancing

was really bored this sleepy afternoon and so did some web surfing.. managed to chance upon some of my favourite astronomy objects.

Show u some pics. Think they explain much better then words.. as u can see, the big dipper has 2 stars at the end, when joined will point to polaris, also know as the North Star.

and the next one up is a picture showing some of the planets and constellations in the evening sky. The pleiades can actually be seen in singapore with naked eye too.

Auroras, one of my favourite, also caught my eye. there are millions of beautiful auroras pics in the world. But to be able to catch one in the sky is hard. Present only at that southern and nothern hemisphere (called aurora australis and aurora borealis respectively), we cannot see them in singapore. They are caused by charged particles from the earth's solar wind that interacts with the earth's magnetic field, thus causing the earth's upper atmosphere to glow.

This is a worth dying for natural phenomenon that i would like to see in my life.

This pic of curtain aurora over the forest is taken by Jan Curtis

The pic with a very nice pinkish skyline is actually the belt of venus. ( named after roman goddes) It is normally visible after sunset and when the atmosphere is clear and cloudless. It is in the opposite direction of the sun and reflect light from it, it is frequently seen in any horizon. This pic is taken in canada.

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