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Awesome...too bad tonight was cloudy and raining... sigh...
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Last night and tonight, in the same binocular field as the Pleiades. Pretty cool looking. Hope you have better weather today.

Nice picture. :ssmile:

I like the church. I think it is the sand-covered church in Denmark:


[float=left][img2]https://assets.atlasobscura.com/media/W1siZiIsInVwbG9hZHMvcGxhY2VfaW1hZ2VzL2E5MzE0YmY4ZDExM2M5MGY1N19Ta2FnZW5zX3RpbHNhbmRlZGVfa2lya2UuanBnIl0sWyJwIiwidGh1bWIiLCJ4MzkwPiJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcXVhbGl0eSA4MSAtYXV0by1vcmllbnQiXV0[/img2][c][size=85]The sand-covered church. Looks much like the APOD church.
Credit: Malene Thyssen, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Malene[/size][/c][/float][quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand-Covered_Church]Wikipedia[/url] wrote:

The Sand-Covered Church (Danish: Den Tilsandede Kirke, also translated as The Buried Church, and also known as Old Skagen Church) is the name given to a late 14th-century church dedicated to Saint Lawrence of Rome. It was a brick church of considerable size, located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) southwest of the town centre of Skagen, Denmark. During the last half of the 18th century the church was partially buried by sand from nearby dunes; the congregation had to dig out the entrance each time a service was to be held. The struggle to keep the church free of sand lasted until 1795, when it was abandoned.[1][2] The church was demolished, leaving the tower with crow-stepped gable as the only part of the original structure still standing.[/quote]

Ann

Awesome...too bad tonight was cloudy and raining... sigh...

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