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Few hours more and year 2007 is history. A new year is beginning and new challenges are awaiting. Year 2007 was an interesting year because of many reasons. I returned back home from Switzerland after working there two years and I started a new interesting job in Finland. I met a couple of new amateur […]

It has been very busy before my Christmas vacation started a couple of days ago. I have been busy at work, but we have also (traditionally) been hurry with preparing for the Christmas. It is the usual hazzle. Anyhow, now it is over. It is pretty quiet here at my home, all the things are […]

I have a friend living in Milan in Italy who is an amateur astronomer as well. Some time ago I asked him if I could visit him and we could watch the night sky on the surrounding mountains. While I was searching for information about Milan and Italy, I stumbled on few great sites full […]

Yes, Christmas is coming! I cannot wait that I do NOT need to wake up to drive to work. Instead I will sleep late, drink lots of coffee and read books on astronomy. Additionally I will watch some astronomy or space related DVD’s because my secrect intelligence has found out that I will receive a […]

Yesterday I wrote three reasons why astronomy is not a good hobby and why you should say no to astronomy. The three reasons for astronomy being not a good hobby were that you do not sleep at nights, you loose focus to your work and the equipment is expensive. Well, good reasons may be. Today […]

By reading this blog it is easy to figure out that I am interested in astronomy. I am keen on few hobbies, and astronomy is one of those. It is fantastic to watch the stars and wonder how super huge the space is. It feels good to understand many things and phenomena outside of this […]

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