Surprisingly, there were a couple of hours of clear skies this week. I managed to improve a little on my Jupiter skills.

The four bright dots are the Galilean moons. Actually these are just placeholders. The real moons are very feint at this exposure. In order from left to right, Calisto, Europa, Io and Ganymede. That little dot, Ganymede, is twice the size of our moon!

Also managed to grab a picture of Bode’s galaxies using the Carl Zeiss lens. Although the colour seems a bit washed out in this one.

The President of South Korea declared martial law. The image of a young woman defiantly grabbing a soldier’s rifle has become iconic.

This is EXACTLY like Advent. Oh yes, Advent, Jesus, candles, all that stuff. The parallels with an attempted coup in South Korea are uncanny.

This is the kind of intellectual rigour that only a theologian can provide.

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