Via Tee Poole, an astronomer’s sky cam in New Mexico catches something unexpected.

1. 
   sherwood 2008 12 22 at 2:40:17 pm

   “Unexpected” only to those not familiar with the ancient Sumerian methods of predicting total avian eclipses.

2. 
   Chris Clarke 2008 12 22 at 2:50:58 pm

   out on the web today
   i saw a hoot owl roosting on a star webcam
   a voice inside my head said Aries the ram
   don’t give a tinker’s damn

   i thought i knew what night was
   fusion aglow
   photons gone for ever
   i should just let them go and…

   i can see them
   each impossibly distant sun
   owl landing quiet and slow
   obstructing every one

   i can tell you
   astronomy will still be strong
   after the boys of Sumer have gone.

3. 
   Space Kitty 2008 12 22 at 2:58:50 pm

   *headdesk*

4. 
   sherwood 2008 12 22 at 3:01:37 pm

   He’s good, ain’t ‘e?

5. 
   Helen 2008 12 23 at 12:57:37 am

   If you were a small furry rodent you wouldn’t be so delighted by a view from that particular angle!