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Anyway, I’ve decided to post a minimum of every 2 days. I’ll start to write the article from 9.00PM. You shall expect it after 10.00PM 
Yesterday night was cloudy and I was having problem installing Meade Autostar Suite to my 640M, thus my ready telescope was desperate. 
Oh yeah, kudos to the author of Imager Manager and WP lightbox for the cool visual view of any images clicked in AstronomyNotes.net Why not you try to click on any image (thumbnail) to try the feature? It is really cool, I must say.
By the way, stay tune for tonight astrophotography session! Seems like the cloud is clearing but I can’t ensure it.
The Southern Delta Aquarid meteor shower peaks on July 28th. Go outside before dawn on Friday morning, look south, and you could see a meteor every five minutes or so.
No one knows where these meteors come from. They could be remains of a long-dead comet or debris from an asteroid-asteroid collision. Curious fact: There is a debris stream nearly parallel to this one. Earth will pass through it on August 8th, producing the Northern Delta Aquarid meteor shower. It’s a mystery, too.
I haven’t seen a meteor this year. I’ve missed 3 meteor shower events, I hope I have the luck to take a look on it again.
On the bright lunar morning, the sky is always dark due to the absent of atmosphere which is as black as midnight. Isn’t it an astronomer’s paradise? No. Not a single star was visible. The glaring, sunlit ground ruined the man’s night vision. Only Earth itself is bright enough to be seen, luminous blue and white, hanging overhead.
Based on this conclusion, we know that a dark sky is not enough. A dark environment is needed too. However, we can’t really find a dark site in urban areas due to the high growing light pollution.
What about on the lunar night? Could an astronomer bear the cold temperature which may be as low as 40 K? I wonder anyone of us could. Don’t you think that a special designed suit is able to eliminate this problem? Everyone of them must feel incovenient in observing, I guess. What about establishing an observatory on the Moon? I am sure that space based telescope like HST is much more better as the observatory will be an easy target for the asteroid.
Thanks to Maximilion for bug hunting. 
Yesterday night was cloudy, I could only see Rigel Kentarius , i.e. only a little part of southern sky is clear. I’ll try again tonight. Jupiter will be my target again for the astrophotography session.
By the way, I am going to implement a translator to benefit my chinese readers.
As I promised, I took this photo together with my precious Meade 8″ LX90. So far, it is still performing like the new made. I am just worrying about the above average humidity of my room which will cause damage to the primary mirror of my telescope.
I was standing on the best position for stargazing as the tree helps to block the stupid road light and holding my road warrior, Dell Inspiron 640M. I am sure that you know where is the LX90. By the way, sorry about that I didn’t have a comb before I took this photo. 
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