On Saturday, December 10, 2011, the friendly neighborhood Downy Woodpeckers were hard at work, in the neighborhood park (look on the trunk of the middle tree): … and in the neighbor’s backyard (these photos taken with 7×35 binoculars): … and the planet Venus was slowly but surely drawing closer to Earth, 178 days ahead of [...]
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Venus Transit T-Minus 176 days, with bonus woodpeckers and post-eclipse Moon
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Lunar Eclipse of December 10, 2011, as viewed from Alexandria, Minnesota, USA
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At first I thought disaster had struck, as clouds were moving in when I got up at 5:30 AM! I had hoped to take a photo of the pre-eclipse bright Full Moon with the 8″ reflector before heading down to the neighborhood park with the smaller refractor. I thank God that the clouds moved on [...]
