Today our birding group had a guest speaker who is an Educator with Oregon Atrophysics Outreach. Our program today was an intro to the hierarchy of Deep Space and we learned about our Solar System, the Milky Way Galaxy and Our Universe.
He had gorgeous photos of everything from planets, the galaxy and black holes.
We got updates on ongoing space missions such as Mercury Messenger, Mars, Juno to Jupiter, Cassini at Saturn and the involvement of other nations in space exploration.
Finally we received dates of upcoming events to be observed March thru June.........Planets:Conjunction, solar eclipse and partial lunar eclipse. He also stressed using proper eye protection. A very good talk and nice handout for future reference.
Stopped at Soup Nation and had a hot bowl of one of their exotic soups and fresh baked bread and then went on to the cinema to see "The Grey"...............lots of violence and not a happy ending so now I have decided to watch hoops to keep from thinking about the wolves and the cold that I observed in "The Grey"
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