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David
post Feb 23 2006, 11:40 PM
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I just wanted to note that Mercury is beautifully visible a little after sunset now, and for a few more days. I have never actually seen Mercury before, with the naked eye or otherwise. In travelling through the atmosphere the light has picked up a beautiful, delicate rose-pink tinge.
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post Feb 24 2006, 10:17 PM
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Space Weather News for Feb. 24, 2006

http://spaceweather.com

MERCURY AT ITS BEST: Tonight is the best night of the year to see Mercury. Step
outside at sunset and look west. Mercury is the bright pink "star" shining
through the glow of the setting sun. (If you miss the planet tonight, try again
tomorrow. Mercury will remain visible at sunset all weekend long.)


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and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance.
I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard,
and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does
not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is
indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have
no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft."

- Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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- David   Viewing Mercury   Feb 23 2006, 11:40 PM
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