Monthly Archives: May 2006


Here’s a guy who has too much time on his hands. Just kidding! But it is pretty amazing what he can do with a model airplane. Watch his precision, indoor flying!

I fought addiction for 44 years! Not until reading this book did I discover a way out. Of course reading it was not enough. He Did Deliver Me From Bondage is a workbook so I went back and did the writing, studying and pondering required. Using the twelve steps of Alcoholic’s Anonymous and the Book of Mormon, Colleen Harrison has truly found a method of addiction recovery that works.

I am so grateful to Colleen for showing me how the Grace and Atonement of Jesus Christ could free me from the bondage of addiction. I am most especially grateful to God for He has, indeed, delivered me from the fetters and shackles and very chains of Hell.

Outside the Scriptures this is my all time favorite book. I have to keep buying it as I always seem to have just given my last copy away. I’ve never found a better explanation of the power of the atonement.

In story form, the author, James L. Ferrell, takes us through the process of forgiving others and obtaining forgiveness for ourselves. I’ve read it over and over, trying to get the paradigm shift it gave me, firmly implanted in my consciousness.

Don’t miss this great little book!

Here’s my favorite!

Check them out at Top Skylines!


The May Sky is full of wonders to behold. The constellations Virgo and Corvus are predominant in the Southeast. In that direction we have turned away from the Milky Way and can see deeper into Space. Look for the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies which can be seen with binoculars. Far in the South is something I really want to see this month - the Omega Centauri Globular Cluster. For more details visit Tonight’s Sky.

Jupiter reaches opposition May 4, when it rises in the east-southeast at sunset. Jupiter tips the scales as the heaviest planet in the solar system, appropriate now that it lies in the constellation Libra the Scales. It lies near Alpha Librae, or Zubenelgenubi, this month. Jupiter gleams at magnitude -2.5, outshining the star a hundredfold.

The best time to view Jupiter is near local midnight (1 a.m. local daylight time), when the giant planet stands highest above the southern horizon. A small scope at about 75x readily shows two dusky belts spanning Jupiter’s equatorial region. The planet’s disk measures 44.7″ across at opposition. Notice its polar diameter spans 3″ less, which gives Jupiter a distinct flattened appearance. This comes about because of its fast rotation - the planet’s gravity can’t hold the bulging equatorial regions as tightly.

Moving in line with Jupiter’s equator are the four bright Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Each moon appears as a bright “star” adjacent to Jupiter and moves relative to every other hour to hour, and night to night.

If you view the planet for only a minute, the main dusky belts may be all you will see. Watch for a longer period, and your eye will attune to Jupiter’s brilliant disk. More subtle features - festoons, wisps, dark and bright spots - then will come into view. These features whisk around Jupiter in a period between 9 hours and 50 minutes and 9 hours and 55 minutes. The exact rotation period depends on latitude; higher latitudes rotate slower than lower ones. Jupiter doesn’t rotate as a solid object like Earth does. Along the boundaries separating different rotation speeds, dramatic turbulence results. This is what creates the fascinating patterns along the edges of its dark belts and light zones.
(From Astronomy.com)