Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

Here is information on the long-ago discovery of this comet.

- I think this is the comet I photographed. I’ll know after a clear night where I can see all the stars around it.

E. Holmes (London, England) was a regular observer of the Andromeda galaxy (M31), so he knew the region very well. On the evening of 1892 November 6, with skies that were not very favorable, he finished making a few observations of Jupiter and some double stars with his 32-cm reflector, and then decided to take a quick look at the faint companions of Mu Andromedae and the nearby galaxy M31 before quitting for the night. Upon turning the reflector toward that region, he saw what he thought was M31 enter the field of the finder, but when he looked through the eyepiece he saw something different. Holmes said he “called out involuntarily, ‘What is the matter? There is something strange here.’ My wife heard me and thought something had happened to the instrument and came to see.”

Updates here. Some details here.

MY BETTER PHOTO HERE.

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Open Office is going to be the standard word processing suite in South Africa. That adds to the growing list of countries that are ditching the proprietary Microsoft formats and their interoperability nightmares. What’s nice about the SA decision, is that business are welcome to develop competing products and sell them. So Open Office is king now, but if they fail to innovate, a better company can build on their legacy.

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