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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

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Re: Stargazing for Soldiers

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*If you know someone in the military who is interested in astronomy or is an amateur astronomer and is stationed in the Mideast, pass this on please. 

From many localities in the Middle East, the sky can appear truly black. In the summertime, for example, the Scorpius and Sagittarius region of the Milky Way casts obvious diffuse shadows on the ground.

That'd be something to see, wow.

Any clouds in the sky are visible only as dark holes in the starry background.  And if you’re are out on a wide-open area, your companions and vehicle are almost totally invisible.

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)