I'm astronomished by your astronomical knowledge; but where do you see them. When I was a boy, I would lie in the grass, look up at the sky, and see zillions of stars. Now I am lucky to see half a dozen. Has global warming destroyed celestial swarming? Richard -------------------- Richard; I was amused by your play on words. That was pretty good. :-) I recently revived my old high school hobby of amateur astronomy so the last couple of weeks I have been refamiliarizing myself with the constellations, planets, etc. I need to get a new telescope because my old one went to the Goodwill bin years ago so I'm making do for now with my 10x50 binoculars. Plus I need a new set of sky charts so the journal entries of my observations will have more meaning. The past week or so I've been fascinated with the "cluster" directly below Jupiter in the binocs. I'm scratching my head on what it is, and my Internet searches won't turn up anything satisfactory. Not to dwell on this subject too long, after all this is a genealogy chat list. :-) Light pollution is making it harder to view the stars on a moonless night, but its not impossible. Connie found an interesting picture which can be viewed at the link below. http://news.aol.com/science Thanks for allowing me to indulge for a moment on this off topic subject. :-) As Star Hustler's Jack Horkheimer always says, "Keep looking up!" And as we say at the paint store when something strange happens, "Science!" Rick B