Chuck,
I imagined you where joking. The fellow from Montana commented that he was tired of looking at mostly circumpolar objects. Most of my comments were also tongue and cheek. But, seriously I read that the one of the reasons that nights appear so short in much of the european costal regions is because of the long twilights caused by sun setting over the Atlantic. Back to alternate energy resources I found this on Wiki The Gulf Stream transports about 1.4 petawatts of heat, equivalent to 100 times the world energy demand.[25] and research is underway to tap this power in a couple of different ways. One idea, which would supply the equivalent power of several nuclear power plants, would deploy a field of underwater turbines placed 300 metres (980 ft) under the center of the core of the Gulf Stream. Ocean thermal energy could also be harnessed to produce electricity, utilizing the temperature difference between cold deep water and warm surface water.[26] Erik, I was JOKING ABOUT TYCHO. Just a JOKE. I forgot that even sarcasm
and jokes get peer-reviewed here. lol.
Norm is correct in that the map I referenced was not really a map- it was an illustration of Europe, drawn freehand now that I compare it to a real map, not accurate at all, but it was all that I had handy, without time to poke around on-line at the time. I can see that my description was erroneous. I'm flattered that my jokes actually sent someone to the atlas to look it up. Hell, I don't take myself seriously, none of you should, either.
Here's the way it came across to me... After all the posts on here about making the most of the skies one has, comments on somebody at a northerly lattitide having a "boring" sky just rang a bit hollow.
I'll keep the humor to myself from now on. ;o) _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com