the night sky in trout lake

since i just spent nearly five whole weeks in trout lake looking up at the night sky i feel a bit obligated to share with you some photos i took of it.



looking directly at the galactic center, here. sagittarius A* is about 26,000 light years away in the center of the picture.


ursa major.


trout lake school.


langfield falls with angela. not the night sky but still beautiful and quintessentially trout lake. pics n' things!

to honour a resolution (or make a new one)

2009 is, for a single good reason, the International Year of Astronomy. it has been 400 years since galileo became weary of looking at the bird feeder in his backyard and decided to have a poke about the heavens. he turned the brass, lathed the wood and polished the mirrors on his telescope. galileo mapped the moon, found saturn's rings and opened up one of the most curious endeavours in all of humanity.

this year take some time, even if it's just one evening, to have a look up. turn off the lights and learn a new constellation, find your favourite star or memorize the order of the planets if you didn't bother in 3rd grade. just look (and marvel) at everything that surrounds us.


fox coat, the unicorn & the christmas tree. can you find them all?

-e pics n' things!