Well, duriyah's research resolved my question a couple weeks ago of what those bright lights in the sky were. But it didn't resolve the most puzzling aspect -- why was I seeing them as having such length ( Read more... )

Anyone else watch the moon go down this evening? Wow, yet another time I wish I had a telephoto lens on my digital camera. (I've had to accept the fact that the lens on my digital is too wide-angle to get any good moon shots, ever, and I've gotten too spoiled by the instant gratification of digital to go back to my old all-manual film SLR ( Read more... )

Last Monday my latest new toy arrived, a small 5-megapixel digital camera, the result of redeeming an Amazon.com gift certificate.

After a bit of image editing, ( the best of the results so far.... )