Thermal Noise

I have always relied on sky charts to guide me through the heavens. Printed charts suck because they usually calibrate the sky for 40 degree North (or south). So I end up using KStars.

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Wrath and fury unleashed upon the sin city as I clicked away:

http://picasaweb.google.com/ananth.shrinivas/HellHathNoFury

Please excuse the ineptitude and lacking taste, for this is the first time I handle a silicon based device capable of capturing electromagnetic waves in the visible spectrum.

“It is the greatest houses and the tallest trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder for the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest” (source)

“Beauty is truth and truth beauty
That is all ye know on earth
And all ye need to know”

John Keats was 24 when he wrote those perspicacious lines. I cannot but wonder at what wisdom nature bestowed upon the child she claimed as her own, barely a year later.
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