She used to wish upon the stars, not a shooting star, but just to the magic that was always looking over her in the night sky. Then it was to the moon as he always seemed to calmly listen to everything she had to say. But slowly somewhere down the lane she just stopped troubling them with her pure hearted wishes but just lay in wonder in their ( Read more... )

As the last sun set from Hemakuta Hill in Hampi and the last rays of the sun was going down along with the left over light, something beautiful happened on the other side. As we turned our heads, Moon with a slight orangish tint was rising. The last moon rise of the year, The moon that was going to be eclipsed in 6 hours time. But there was ( Read more... )

Night sky -> Space -> radio astronomy -> Deep Space Network -> "Contact" the movie -> "Contact" the book -> Beatles -> Across the Universe!

Got What I am saying? No? Well let me explain.

I Love astronomy. I have always had a soft corner for radio astronomy and Listening to Deep space. This is more than evident when I express my thoughts on the movie ( Read more... )

:) My good old camera did it for me! No Tripod, No telescope, Just a 6 Mega pixel picture cropped!


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Now that shes back in the atmosphere
With drops of Jupiter in her hair,
She acts like summer and walks like rain
Reminds me that theres time to change,
Since the return from her stay on the moon
She listens like spring and she talks like June,


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How fictitious would be a land with 3 suns in the sky? 3 sunrises and 3 sunsets? very much right? But I say no, Its as real as earth's one sunrise and sunset! The closest star to our solar system is Proxima centauri. Proxima centauri is a part of a triple system just 4.3 light years away! Triple system, means a 3 star system. 3 stars that are close ( Read more... )

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Slowly words stop making sense. Maybe the sentences were formed by just a collection of random words that were not meant to be together... decompose (dead body?)... enterprise (start ship enterprise!) ... ecosystem (pollution, global warming!) ... commitment (who is getting married?).. but maybe its not even english, were they talking an alien ( Read more... )

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Look at the stars
Look how they shine for you!"Gazing at the stars. Looking at the constellations, the planets in the night sky are the best thing that my eyes could ever ask for. This treat for the eyes was pronounced a million times on the way to ooty before getting on to Doddabetta. We reached that place around 3 am in the morning and had to ( Read more... )