Got up early this morning and took this, nothing special, just a nice view outside my bedroom window.

Did some more work on the run today. More stumps in the ground, cleared the area for them to sratch in and re worked the chicken wire onto the stumps.

seriously people do not upgrade to virgins 50 meg, don’t even go with them. terrible service, terrible customer service. for the 2nd month in a row no I’ve been cut off on the date my bill was emailed out to me, even tho I don’t owe them a penny and pay my bills on time.

Small dedication to You for giving us so much music wise. You will be missed.

Pretty shocked that Michael Jackson has died, just way too young. I was brought up on his music and had a big part  in my music library. Musical genius and legend.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8119993.stm

Sorry for the lack of movie updates, Scumfrog seems to be off doing his own thing now and He was my source for upcoming movie news. I will try do my best for now.

Took this tonight. A Composite of 2 images, one for moons and one for the planet. Seeing conditions 7/10. Cmos webcam is Definitely letting me down. Although saying that I am really pleased with this shot as it shows my progression at astro imaging. Its nice to see some color in the moons.

Oh my god its so hot and muggy here, its come all of a sudden too. Was rather mild yesterday.

Ive resorted to laying on my bed in just boxers to cool off.

Enlighten yourself with this lecture. I really enjoyed this, I think you might too.

Perimeter Institute brings great thinkers from around the world to Canada to share their ideas on a wide variety of interesting and topical subjects. These lectures and debates are aimed at non-specialists. No mathematical or scientific knowledge is necessary or assumed.Each event is explicitly tailored for the general public and everyone is welcome to attend.

Will big questions be answered when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) switches on in 2007? What will scientists find? Where might the research lead? Nima Arkani-Hamed, a noted particle theorist, is a Professor of Physics at Harvard University. He investigates a number of mysteries and interactions in nature – puzzles that are likely to have experimental consequences in the next few years via particle accelerators, like the LHC, as well as cosmological observations.

Below are live views of the sun using different filters. These are updated regularly and automatically.

Thankyou to NASA and its SOHO website for the below images and information, you can check the full site at http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov

EIT 171……………………………………………EIT 195

EIT 284………………………………………………EIT 304

MDI Continuum…………………………..MDI Magnetogram

LASCO C2……………………………………..LASCO C3

About these images.

LASCO IMAGES

• LASCO (Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph) is able to take images of the solar corona by blocking the light coming directly from the Sun with an occulter disk, creating an artificial eclipse within the instrument itself. The position of the solar disk is indicated in the images by the white circle. The most prominent feature of the corona are usually the coronal streamers, those nearly radial bands that can be seen both in C2 and C3. Occasionally, a coronal mass ejection can be seen being expelled away from the Sun and crossing the fields of view of both coronagraphs. The shadow crossing from the lower left corner to the center of the image is the support for the occulter disk.

• C2 images show the inner solar corona up to 8.4 million kilometers (5.25 million miles) away from the Sun.

• C3 images have a larger field of view: They encompass 32 diameters of the Sun. To put this in perspective, the diameter of the images is 45 million kilometers (about 30 million miles) at the distance of the Sun, or half of the diameter of the orbit of Mercury. Many bright stars can be seen behind the Sun.

• Visit SOHO Explore! to learn more about the Sun.

EIT IMAGES

• EIT (Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope) images the solar atmosphere at several wavelengths, and therefore, shows solar material at different temperatures. In the images taken at 304 Angstrom the bright material is at 60,000 to 80,000 degrees Kelvin. In those taken at 171 Angstrom, at 1 million degrees. 195 Angstrom images correspond to about 1.5 million Kelvin, 284 Angstrom to 2 million degrees. The hotter the temperature, the higher you look in the solar atmosphere.

• Visit SOHO Explore! to learn more about the Sun.

MDI IMAGES

• The MDI (Michelson Doppler Imager) images shown here are taken in the continuum near the Ni I 6768 Angstrom line. The most prominent features are the sunspots. This is very much how the Sun looks like in the visible range of the spectrum (for example, looking at it using special ‘eclipse’ glasses: Remember, do not ever look directly at the Sun!). The magnetogram image shows the magnetic field in the solar photosphere, with black and white indicating opposite polarities.

• Visit SOHO Explore! to learn more about the Sun.