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Thanks Art. Newton Longville would be SSW of MK, just outside Bletchley. Maybe the photographer could enlighten us?

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The most remarkable thing about this photo is the clear sky over Milton Keynes.
Normally washed out by the city lights etc. [/quote][quote=" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park"]

<<Located in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England UK, Bletchley Park was the central site for British codebreakers during World War II. Run by the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), it regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis Powers – most importantly the German Enigma and Lorenz ciphers. The official historian of World War II British Intelligence has written that the "Ultra" intelligence produced at Bletchley shortened the war by two to four years, and that without it the outcome of the war would have been uncertain.>>[/quote][quote="tetrodehead"]

What was the location looking west? Old Stratford, Passenham?[/quote]
[list]I believe we are looking SSW. (More Oxford than Stratford.)[/list]

Today's APOD caused me to reflect. I was looking at my diamond wedding ring the other day and noticed an image of the light source reflected off of its [url=http://www.jewelry-secrets.com/Blog/the-diamond-table/]table facet[/url]. It made me curious if a diamond's reflectivity had any unique utility in astronomy. Maybe for other [url=http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2016/feb/04/diamond-defects-and-quantum-logic-give-nmr-a-boost]purposes[/url] but the [url=https://www.sciencenews.org/article/perfect-mirror-debuts]perfect reflecting mirror[/url] may still be coming.

It might be fun to try and capture an image, similar to todays, off of a diamond's facet but I'm afraid it's not a facet of my skills. :wink:

The most remarkable thing about this photo is the clear sky over Milton Keynes.
Normally washed out by the city lights etc.
What was the location looking west? Old Stratford, Passenham?

[quote="ta152h0"]is that considered a " lucky shot " ?[/quote]
Well, any shot can be lucky. But this is a well established photographic technique, shooting landscapes through water drops on glass or dripping from something. The only thing that sets this one apart is the presence of Venus.

[quote]By the way, I like that spell check thing you have in operation here[/quote]
What spell checker? If you're seeing spell checking, it's a feature of your browser, not the Asterisk.

is that considered a " lucky shot " ? By the way, I like that spell check thing you have in operation here

Amazing photography! :D 8-)

WOW... that is totally cool....

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[url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170127.html][img]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_170127.jpg[/img] [size=150]Venus Through Water Drops[/size][/url]

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