Monday, January 14, 2008
My 2007 highlights
We are well into 2008 now, but despite this I will give you my 2007 highlights anywayComet McNaught: Highlight of the year and one of the top five astronomical events of my life (a total solar eclipse, the transit of Venus, the Leonid meteor storm and the transits of Mercury are all there as well)
Nova Scorpii: A bright (well magnitude 5.5) unexpected nova, very nice.
Gliese 581c & d "Earth-like" extrasolar worlds that may be in their stars habitable zone. Was that exciting or what?
The total Lunar eclipse: Just really, really beautiful.
Comet 17P: An amazing outburst that just kept on. People can still see it with the unaided eye.
And there were giant sunspots, and STEREO comets and great ISS passes. All in all a wonderful year
# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 10:17 pm 
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