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Monday, 23 December 2024

DEAD OF NIGHT: THE EXORCISM

What would Christmas be without a few old school scares!

From the haunted 1970's and perfect for my birthday chills!

On the BBC 1972.

I had a great laff at the home- made Xmas card my pal Arnum Endean sent me. As it's pretty SF oriented, so I asked if he minded me sharing it with everyone and he essentially said "Damn the Proton Torpedoes!"

I found his "Bounced Cheque/Jek" pun a little too tortured, but that's my pal Arnum!

Season's Greetings Everyone!

Looey

OZ Base

Birthday Greetings from Terranova47

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAUL.

With Christmas being midweek we will not be in Connecticut on the day so Silver King who celebrates his 70th birthday then was out for his birthday spin this past weekend, Here he is in the foreground with my version of him in London Transport colours on Northern Heights.

Many Happy Returns

Terranova47

USA

A LOOK AT THE ORION NEBULA

It was a reasonably clear night sky yesterday evening, and in spite of the cold conditions, and the howling gale whistling through the trees at the bottom of the garden, I thought I’d seize the opportunity to do a spot of astro-photography,

The constellation of Orion is prominent in the night sky at this time of year, and so I decided to focus on the Sword of Orion just below the Belt.

The fuzzy looking star in the middle of the three prominent stars that make up the sword is the Orion Nebula, and is always a point of fascination for me.

The Orion Nebula, or M42 is approximatly1,500 light years away making it the closest known large star forming region from Earth, and is estimated to be 24 light years across.

Although my camera couldn’t hope to compete with more high end equipment, I was still pleased to see some of the red and purple hues of the star forming gas clouds.

Ad astra per aspera