Note the copyright. That photograph, among hundreds of others, was taken by a telescope in New South Wales, Australia. I only know this is because I stumbled across the AAO site and images a few years ago, and have viewed and downloaded EVERY image from this site, and read the information that went along with the photos as I went. I learned a lot about astronomy, and continue to be in awe of the sheer beauty of the universe.
Oubliette - (noun, french) a little place of forgetting. A small, windowless room where someone is locked away, forgotten, left to go mad.
This is my personal place to rant and rave like the lunatic I am, my oubliette. It's dark, quiet, and I come here to forget about things. Or maybe to remember them. After all, where does insanity end, and insight begin?
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
ok, so this is borderline obsessive...
I'm sitting here watching a program on the Discovery Science Channel, and they are talking about the space telescopes, mainly Hubble, and showed at least one photo from a terrestial telescope, claiming it was taken by Hubble. Exhibit A, the specific galaxy - Messier 104, NGC 4594, commonly called the Sombrero galaxy:

Note the copyright. That photograph, among hundreds of others, was taken by a telescope in New South Wales, Australia. I only know this is because I stumbled across the AAO site and images a few years ago, and have viewed and downloaded EVERY image from this site, and read the information that went along with the photos as I went. I learned a lot about astronomy, and continue to be in awe of the sheer beauty of the universe.
Note the copyright. That photograph, among hundreds of others, was taken by a telescope in New South Wales, Australia. I only know this is because I stumbled across the AAO site and images a few years ago, and have viewed and downloaded EVERY image from this site, and read the information that went along with the photos as I went. I learned a lot about astronomy, and continue to be in awe of the sheer beauty of the universe.
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