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Autumnal Equinox

Yesterday was the Autumnal Equinox–day and night were of equal length. Also, Fall began, signaling the advent of winter.  If you are a sky watcher, the Fall offers many opportunities for viewing the heavens. As the nights grow longer and the weather cooler, you will find great opportunities for skywatching. The familiar constellations of summer, Scorpius and Sagittarius, will remain visible in the south and southwest in the evening. View Jupiter, Venus and Mars as they head toward different directions in the hours before sunrise.

International Space Station

On Sunday, September 27, at 807 pm CST,  gaze toward the northwest, just under the bowl of the Big Dipper for the International Space Station (ISS).  Two minutes later, the ISS will fly past Polaris to the northeast.  The ISS will be visible against the Great Square of Pegasus in the east at 810 pm CST and will then disappear from sight.

Other sitings in CST zone.

Meteor Showers

We have four possibilities to view meteor showers:

Orionids-October 21, morning
Leonids- night of November 17/18, morning
Geminids- night of December 13/14

Evening Sky Maps

Not familar with the constellations?  Download free Evening Sky Maps from Skymaps.com

We are currently in San Antonio, visiting the doctors at the VA Hospital and staying at a really nice RV park called the Admiralty RV Resort. It is about 1-1/2 miles from Sea World and it only takes us about 15 minutes to get to the medical center from here.

The facilities include a large heated pool with separate jacuzzi, laundry room, activity center, curbside garbage pickup, free Wi-Fi and free cable with HBO. We paid $32.50 with Good Sam discount.   There are weekly, monthly and other discounts.

Here is the website: Admiralty RV Resort

We have met some really nice people, some who are staying for up to 6 months.  This is a popular place for the Winter Texans from Canada.  During the winter, they have a activity director who comes in every day to make sure everyone is having a good time.

The bus stop is very close and you can go anywhere in San Antonio without having to worry about finding your way and paying for  parking. This is probably the cleanest, most well run RV park in which we have camped.

September 11, 2001

We will remember. We will remember that this event was predicted and a briefing prepared by the Clinton Administration about using airplanes as WMD. The briefing was ignored because a POTUS wanted to invade Iraq.

We will remember. We will remember how a POTUS sat in a school chair without doing anything while the towers fell, the Pentagon was hit and everyday heroes on Flt 93 took the initiative to do something.

We will remember. We will remember how the Patriot Act has been used as a hammer to tear asunder the basic rights guaranteed to American citizens by the Constitution.

We will remember. We will remember how a POTUS lied to get the country to agree to invade a sovereign nation, when there were more pressing cases of need and genocide all over the world; unfortunately, not in oil rich areas.

We will remember. We will remember how a POTUS, while waving the banner of homeland security has given away public lands, national seashores and pristine refuges to his Big Oil buddies.

We will remember. We will remember how a POTUS may declare himself above all law, including environmental protections in place for decades.

We will remember.