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[halil]

here how i pictured the moon and mars last night .... i wonder how it will be tonight.

It is jupiter Halil.......You should have seen my late sisters face when I showed her first planet seen with the naked eye..

Yes u and Billy boy are correct zan....I have done some search today .

but it was nice . tonight moon was alone

[Malapapa]

They cannot help it as it's what they have been doing since the 1950's x

Dunno about the others but I've been hunting cowardly Cypriot Muslim converts, who turned their back on the island's traditional belief system for the sake of an easy life, since the 1570s.

[Get Real!]

Dunno about the others but I've been hunting cowardly Cypriot Muslim converts, who turned their back on the island's traditional belief system for the sake of an easy life, since the 1570s.

Here's one who did the opposite...

About 250 feet above the monastery the ridge of a spur afforded a level space beneath some tall pines which threw a welcome shade, and would have been a convenient camping-ground. This spot was occupied by the roughest of log-huts, which had been erected by a shepherd as his summer residence when the goats should be driven from the low ground to the mountain pasture. This man was originally a Turk, and formed one of a peculiar sect known in Cyprus as Linobambaki (linen and cotton). These people are said to be converts to Christianity, but in reality they have never been troubled with any religious scruples, and accordingly never accommodate their principles to the society of their neighbourhood. In a Turkish village the Linobambaki would call himself by a Turkish name, as Mahomet, or Hassan, &c., while in a Christian community he would pass as Michael or Georgy, or by other Greek appellations. The name "linen and cotton" applied to them is expressive of their lukewarmness and time-serving, their religious professions fluctuating according to the dictates not of conscience, but personal interest. It is supposed that about 1500 of these people exist in various parts of Cyprus; they are baptised in the Greek Church, and can thus escape conscription for military service according to Turkish law. The goatherd upon our mountain had been a Turkish servant (shepherd) in a Greek family, and had succeeded in gaining the heart of his master's daughter, whom he was permitted to marry after many difficulties. This woman must have been very beautiful when young, as, in spite of hard work and exposure, she was handsome at forty, with a pair of eyes that in youth might have been more attractive than the mysterious light in the hermit's cave. It is one of the blessings of fine eyes that they are almost certain to descend to the children. Property may vanish, litigation may destroy the substance of an inheritance; but the eyes, large, soft, and gentle, which can occasionally startle you by their power and subdue you by a tear, are the children's entail that nothing can disestablish. Even when time has trampled upon complexion, the eyes of beauty last till death.

The children of this Linobambaki and his handsome wife were seven--two boys of about nineteen and seventeen, and five girls from fourteen to one and a half--all of whom had the eyes of the mother developed most favourably. I cannot well describe every individual of a family: there were the two handsome shepherd youths who would have made level ground of mountain steeps, through their power and activity.

http://www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in/resources ... ter13.html

[skyvet]

What a coincidence! We had a full moon in our village too!

Any pictures? Then we will believe you

Happy to oblige Zan ......

[B25]

What a coincidence! We had a full moon in our village too!

Any pictures? Then we will believe you

Happy to oblige Zan ......

Mate, you just made my day

[bill cobbett]

here how i pictured the moon and mars last night .... i wonder how it will be tonight.

It is jupiter Halil.......You should have seen my late sisters face when I showed her first planet seen with the naked eye..

Yes u and Billy boy are correct zan....I have done some search today .

but it was nice . tonight moon was alone

Yes, Jupiter is a brill sight, it'll be there for a few more weeks, then it'll go behind the Sun and won't re-appear 'til next year.

By the way Halil, I can just make out a second planet in your photos.

[shahmaran]

here how i pictured the moon and mars last night .... i wonder how it will be tonight.

It is jupiter Halil.......You should have seen my late sisters face when I showed her first planet seen with the naked eye..

Yes u and Billy boy are correct zan....I have done some search today .

but it was nice . tonight moon was alone

Jupiter usually sets before the Moons gets near it.

[bill cobbett]

here how i pictured the moon and mars last night .... i wonder how it will be tonight.

It is jupiter Halil.......You should have seen my late sisters face when I showed her first planet seen with the naked eye..

Yes u and Billy boy are correct zan....I have done some search today .

but it was nice . tonight moon was alone

Jupiter usually sets before the Moons gets near it.

Not really mate, there are times when the Moon and Jupiter are in conjunction, when they meet in the sky. Pretty rare and sometimes when this happens the Moon, passes directly in front of J in what's called an occultation. .. Here there's a bit about it here...

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/spacewa ... 20215.html