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    From kelleher.gerald@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 23 04:18:23 2021
    There is this wonderful NASA-ESA satellite with a camera tracking with the Earth through space with a focal point on the stationary/central Sun that goes almost unnoticed.

    Just as the magnificent Webb telescope is being launched and successfully deployed please God, the SOHO C3 camera will capture Venus passing between the slower moving Earth and central Sun as it does every few years -

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2uCtot1aDg

    https://www.theplanetstoday.com/

    Scroll the dates forward to interpret what is going to happen soon-

    https://sol24.net/data/html/SOHO/C3/96H/VIDEO/

    Sometimes it is just as productive and creative to look into the centre of the solar system where our parent star resides and gain just as much satisfaction than looking in the opposite direction.

    Happy Christmas to all

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  • From kelleher.gerald@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 25 13:17:54 2021
    Galileo turned his telescope outward and saw the satellites of Jupiter orbit their parent planet by running circuits back and forth around the planet-

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcrBAuLBXag

    Our society can now look towards the centre of the solar system from a satellite also over a million miles away tracking with the Earth around the Sun and see the faster moving Venus and Mercury running circuits back and forth around our parent star-

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2uCtot1aDg

    When those two planets move from right to left, they are behind the Sun and when they move from left to right, they are overtaking the slower moving Earth and stationary Sun.

    Delighted the deployment of the Webb has been successful so far and eventually all the wonderful images of new objects or ones in closer detail that it will send back to our planet.

    Sometimes we make more progress by looking inwards towards our parent star before looking outwards into the vastness of this gorgeous Universe, not for the sake of being right or proving something but just simple satisfaction of the dynamics spectacle.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?fred__k._engels=C2=AE?=@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 26 06:52:09 2021
    WONDERFUL BOXING DAY NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!
    Another Chicom launch with TWO new spy satellites added: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EoAHdwGBvU

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  • From kelleher.gerald@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 26 14:22:03 2021
    I miss Marty's annual 'Midnight Christmas Eve' this year.

    Hope he is doing well and season's greeting to him.

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