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Strategies & Market Trends : Winter in the Great White North -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MrsNose who wrote (1558)	10/29/2001 9:54:48 AM
From: Condor	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 8273

The Northern Lights were forecast as a result of very active solar flares last week. They were awesome. They were still perking even at pre-dawn here, near Sudbury. There was supposed to be a meteor shower around 3:00 a.m. coming out of the Orion area....aftermath of Halleys comet. torontostar.com I suspect the shower was anti-climactic, while I missed the 3:00 a.m. there was negligible activity at 5:00 a.m. The next metoer shower should be the Leonids Nov 17-18 Leonid Meteors (Nov. 17-18). Two experts who successfully predicted 1999's Leonid storm, David Asher and Robert McNaught, foresee good storm prospects for 2001 and 2002. Others suggest that in 2001, as Earth passes very close to the dust ejected from Comet Tempel-Tuttle in 1866, there may be at least two very intense activity peaks on November 18th between 10:00 and 18:00 Universal Time. As the Moon will be only 3 days old, 2001 may be a very good year for viewing Leonids. Venus and Mercury remain less than 1 degree apart for the next 9 days starting this morning. Look for them low in the east in the glow of sunrise. They are very impressive and clear. For any of you star gazers, a site that is excellent and very comprehensive try skyandtelescope.com You can get items to look for each night at (scroll down) This Week’s Sky at a Glance skyandtelescope.com An excellent uncomplicated Canadian magazine for amateur star gazers is Sky News skynews.ca It would be a great idea as a Christmas gift The ultimate magazine is US and is called "Sky and Telescope". Very interesting and technically informative. Try a copy off the counter sometime and see if you like it. skypub.com Did you know that our Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy will collide in 3 billion years? So....plan now...get your survival kit together <g> skynews.ca The most overlooked night viewing instrument are binoculars. In the handle of the Big Dipper, one star is actually a binary star. Two suns (stars) that rotate around each other and we see them as a single star (sun). There are about 250 billion suns (stars) in the Milky Way Galaxy. There are about 50 billion galaxies. I wonder how many have planets (solar systems) around each sun? Life out there? Good chance... with those numbers (250 billion times 50 billion). The star Betelgeuse ( quite prominent in the night sky) is 55,000 times more luminous than our sun (star) BUT...it's far away so appears average brightness to us. Intrigued Marjorie?......look up more often in the evening. Are they stars or just pinholes in the curtain of night? I'm a fan of the night sky and the Universe...can you tell. <gg> Regards C