Ketamine use is becoming an epidemic among the young. It is used as a form of escapism. Faith provides a much healthier form of escapism with far fewer side effects. It gives life meaning, because without it it’s all pretty pointless and hopeless and we may as well all fall into a drug induced stupor and end it all.
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Parliament is deciding whether doctors can murder people. People, who seem to think they should decide when their own life should end, must go on suffering for as long as I tell them to, It’s the Christian thing to do.
There will be other opinions, but you’re not allowed to hear them as this is Thought for the Day.
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The movement of comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS is quite obvious from night to night. Here are a couple of images taken last night and the night before.
The comet’s now well on its lonely, icy way back to the Oort cloud.
I was hoping to do a fancy picture with the two images merged, but the program I was trying to use kept crashing. So you’re stuck with side by side images for now,
I also tried to get some telescope images last night, but neither the telescope nor the camera would cooperate. The telescope refused to save its alignment, so tended to wander off all over the place. The camera’s focus assist also decided to show a blank screen, so it was nearly impossible to get a good focus. It’s live update screen was also taking ages to update, when I need it to operate in real time. As a result, most of last night’s close ups weren’t very good.
There are days when every bit of technology I touch just seems to break.
And in the Big News today from a Faith Perspective, we Catholics toppled communism. That’s why Catholics, who possess absolute truth, need to be in charge of politics.
Social media is full of all sorts of outrageous, unbelievable lies. That’s why you need the Catholic Church, with its sure foundation of unquestionable truth, to help you.
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Last night, finally, I managed to get some pictures of the comet that’s being dominating the astronomy news for the last couple of months. Until now it’s always been below the horizon or behind clouds.
I struggled to find it at first even with binoculars. I was expecting a naked eye object, but in the end it took a camera to reveal it.
So here it is, looking west from my back garden in Southend at about 7.30 last night.
This is a cropped and slightly enhanced version. The original looks more like this.
(The comet’s near the bottom in the middle of the picture.) 0.5s exposure at ISO 3200.
And through the telescope.
Again, this has been slightly enhanced. The original is a bit darker.
2s exposure, ISO 3200. These are single frames, so no stacking.
The comet should still be visible for a while, although I’m told it will fade rapidly. As you can see above, it’s already not that bright.
Platitude of the Day 