[CAT] Scratching Posts

Is it me or does this look like a monkey with a grey beard wearing a toque

And he has something on his finger. Turd?

Elephantboar with booger on its finger.

DickSchittlippz wrote:I wish the pic of Stephan's Quintet could be enlarged.

Ask and ye shall receive.

Awesome picture ?
Now... who made it ? :-P

Cracking APOD today!

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Damn it looks quiet...too quiet. Does that mean I should buy some snow tires?

We're in one of the deepest solar minima on record. The sun is very quiet. But it does this on an 11-year cycle, and everyone is waiting for it to crank back up.

Supermassiveawesome APOD today, click to get its full size.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/ ... bs_big.jpg

I think the full size is in the thread too.

leonids next week. hopefully we aren't cloudy as usual when i try to see these things.

Anyone know which direction or constellation to be looking in?
Any info at all really, ill prolly drive 2 miles out of town 24hrs from now, too much light where im at.

LEOnids.

The radiant is in Leo. However, staring at the radiant is a good way to not see shit. Meteors will appear all over the sky, they just all happen to point back to the radiant. That doesn't mean, however, that they will appear near the radiant.

How do I spot the Leo radiant then? Last shower i looked nearly straight up at the W shaped Cassiopeia.

Look overhead for Mars. It's the reddest thing you can possibly see, much redder than Aldebaran in nearby Taurus. Once you find Mars, look to the left for a sickle or question mark of stars. That's Leo.