THE QUARTERLY MEETING WILL BE HELD THURSDAY OCTOBER 9 @ 7PM
GWIZ IN SARASOTA.
Richard Wright from Software Bisque will be the speaker.

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Wondering what that bright thing in the sky is tonight? Don't jump to conclusions - jump on the e-mail and ask one of the local amateur astronomers (and one professional!) listed below what that bright thing is! Venus? Mars? Jupiter? Saturn?
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PLANET HAIKUS
by Brian Matthews

Mercury stays close
To the Sun it cherishes
By its attention.

Venus hides from view
Beneath searing clouds of shame
Its brush with hot death

The Earth moves stately
Attended by its lunar
Consort in its awe.

Mars the red one glows
With the blood of history
Etched wrongly still.

Jupiter, large orb
Gleams bright in the sacred night
Bringer of comets.

Saturn the lovely
Girdled by ring and glory
Unique among gems.

Uranus, bleak sphere
Lazy watchman of the dark
On his side amiss.

Neptune the azure
Mimics his big brother Jove
With an eye of woe.

Pluto, scorned as true
Among planets, yet he too
Boasts of membership.

PLANET HAIKUS ©2006 by Brian Matthews

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M8 The Lagoon Nebula
Photo by Howard Hachhalter


MARS by ???


MERCURY TRANSIT by Tom Wolf


COMET P71/HOLMES by George Fleenor