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May. 28th, 2005 @ 02:10 am Sleep and South Dakota
Me, my wife, and my son are heading out on the road to South Dakota tonight at about 8pm. I am taking my binoculars and hope to do a little more work on my constellations. I am taking (gasp) paper along to record my efforts and will report back when we return. On a bright note there is rumor of an old telescope hiding in the basement of my wifes Great-grandmothers house. We shall investigate. =)


Clear skies and safe driving,

Jon
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May. 27th, 2005 @ 02:26 am Hercules, Cygnus and Lyra
May 27th 1:00am MDT

Tonight I was focused on learning the pattern of a couple of lesser known (to me) constellations. Hercules was fairly faint but almost at zenith. Lyra and Cygnus were much easier to find being anchored in the sky by the stars Vega and Deneb respectivly. Deneb and Vega along with Altair make up what is called the summer triangle. I attempted to locate M13 in Hercules with my Binoculars but was unable to. After observing for about 45 minutes the moon crested the mountains so I took a couple of quick looks with the binoculars and headed indoors.
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Apr. 1st, 2004 @ 03:24 pm Baby!
My wife just gave birth to a handsome baby boy yesterday at 11:19 am, 7 Lbs, 7oz

Welcome to the world Neil!
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