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Welcome to O B A F G K M !
...my little known little corner of the known universe (pronounced OH-baff-GEEK-em).
There is only one rule to follow while here: Keep it light and let's have fun. Oops... that's two rules. Anyway, I think you get the idea.

Website inception: 18 October 1999 Last Modified: 18 November 2005
Next modification: Probably soon, maybe, but doubtful.

The WebMaster is VERY interested in hearing your
comments, opinions and/or suggestions
regarding this website, please contact him at:
i.couldn't.care.less@getalife.com

The thumbnail to the left will take you to M45, also called The Pleiades (pronounced plee-a-dees), Seven Sisters or, in Japanese, Subaru. The Pleiades is truly one of the most beautiful asterisms in the Fall and Winter time sky. It is an Open Cluster located about 380 LY (light years) away in the constellation Taurus. It contains about 400 (!) stars and measures about 13 LY across. For more info, and a bigger picture, click on the thumb. Click HERE for an artists conceptual view of The Pleiades from an asteroid inside this Open Cluster by my friend, Adolf Schaller.

Click on the Thumbnail to the right and it takes you to M13 (also listed as NGC6205), a globular cluster in the constellation Hercules. It is another strikingly beautiful deep space object in the Summer sky. I never miss an opportunity to look at it and share it with friends when I am out observing.

"Really don't mind if you sit this one out" - Gerald Bostock

"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein

"To measure is to know" - Johannes Kepler

"Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed." - Neil Armstrong

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" - Carl Sagan

"All the glory, all the yards and all the touchdowns don't mean a thing. I came to play on every
down and I never took a rest. That's how I want to be remembered." - Walter Payton

Thanks for stopping by ...

Keep Looking UP!

Ever wonder what our sun (proper name Sol) might look like in about 5 billion years (that's billion with a "B") Well, click on the thumb to the right and you'll see one possible future called M57, The Ring Nebula. To us Earthlings, The Ring is summer time sight, located in the constellation Lyra.

How come a lot of this 'stronomy stuff starts with the letter "M"? It's because of a guy named Charles Messier (pronounced mess - ee - ay). No relation to the hockey player. Messier lived back in the 18th Century and he was a big time 'Stronomer and "Comet Hunter". To avoid confusion, he looked for objects that might be mistaken for Comets and numbered them 1 through 110.. To learn more, click on the thumbnail picture to the left.

What a visiter from another planet may tell us about ourselves: He might say that earthlings put so much
emphasis on truthfulness in order to be believed when they lie. - Kurt Vonnegut

Oye Como va? -- Tito Puente

All is well in Allen, Texas, USA, Earth, Solar System, Local (Chimney) Bubble, Orion Spur,
Sagittarius Arm, Milky Way, Local Group, Virgo Cluster, Known Universe,
Unknown Universe, Mote in the Eye of God: Home of O B A F G K M !!!

Welcome fellow 'Stronomers, BPEople, Snopesters, Skeptics, Evolving Thinkers, Intelligent Trolls and Debunkers of Debunkers*!!

Welcome also to Christians, Muslims, Agnostics, Jews, Mormans, Druids, Native Americans, Masons, Dixons (?), Humanists,
Atheists, Socialists, Scientists, Capitalists, Paleontologists, Methodists, Communists, Physicists, Nontheists, Budhists, Separatists, Zionists, Baptists, Abolitionists, Federalists, Taoists, Economists, Creationists, Linguists, Psychiatrists, Constructionists,
Monotheists, Biologists, Psychologists, Loyalists, Nudists, Wiccans, Hindus, Blacks, Whites, Yellows, Browns, Blues (smurfs?),
Reds, Greens, Aliens (both legal and Illegal), Democrats, Conservatives, Republicans, Liberals, Whigs, Pagans,
Heathens, Plutonians, Latvians, Pastafarians, Pleiadians, Canadians, Jovians, Lithuanians, Martians, Phoenicians, Neptunians,
Estonians, Saturnians, Barbarians, Ukrainians, Uranians, Rosecrucians, Rastafarians, Venusians, Vandals, Vikings, Celts, Picts,
Huns, Actuaries, Slavs, Romans, Neanderthals and all the rest of you that are just to dog-gone numerous to mention, dog-gone-it.

ALL (yes, even the French) are welcome here regardless of age, race, gender, sect, religion, sexual orientation,
beliefs / non-beliefs, length of nose hair, color of under garments, cleanliness of ears, smelly-ness of feet, etc., etc., etc.

I guess if we let the French in, we'll have to let in the Attorneys, Accountants, Politicians and Pimps too.

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So , You wanna buy a telesope?

You might be wondering who I am

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Visitors since 01/09/03

*If you are debunking debunkers, aren't you a debunker as well? How does one debunk oneself?
Hopefully the answers to these questions are forthcoming,. However I won't be holding my breath.

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"Blessed are those that can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused" - unknown

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