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Venus and Saturn(Aldebaran to the lower right of Venus)have a very close encounter, 0.7 degrees apart in the early morning twilight sky on July 15 over Drake University Observatory in Des Moines, Iowa. The observatory is said to be haunted by Dr.Daniel Morehouse. He was the first Chairman of the Astronomy and Physics Department at Drake University and his claim to fame was discovering a comet in the 1920's, which was named after him. After a brief illness, Morehouse died in 1941 and his remains along with those of his wife, are interred in the wall of the observatory entryway. Students taking classes at the observatory in the past have reported many strange things happening in the basement, such as a feeling of being watched and an unknown force correcting the claculations in their observation logs. Built in 1920 to house a large telescope that was given to the university in 1894, the observatory is currently going through a major renovation. Photo taken with a Nikon Coolpix 950 digital camera, auto-exposed. |
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