EGAD
or, (de)mythologizing the fetish of placewherein our unlikely hero composes a series of
empirical geo-anthrospatial dispatches, aimed at establishing just where
he is, and perhaps even why it matters
Passed along for your interest: there is a magnitude 3.7 nova in Scorpius. (Via Bad Astronomy)
Scorpius being a rather southerly constellation, it never gets more than 12 degrees above the horizon here in Minnesota (and that right about at sunrise), so I don't plan to attempt an observation. Still, fundamentally cool.
Posted by Milligan at February 18, 2007 04:55 PM | TrackBack