Hale-Bopp revisited
March 7, 2008
Credit & Copyright: A. Dimai, (Col Druscie Obs.), AAC
The Great Comet of 1997 was photographed from the Dolomite mountains near Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy., The image was chosen as the AstronomyPicture of the Day on March 2, 2008. (Click image to enlarge)
On Sunday night, April 6, 1997, I was over the North Atlantic, flying to Brussels on the way to Israel and a 12 day study tour of the Holy Land. All through that short night, Hale-Bobb hung over the left wing tip as I gazed out of my window and thought about God’s cosmos. My puny earth-bound mind struggled to conceive of God as creator of not only Earth, but of ‘heavens’ of which man still knows only a smidgen, orbiting telescopes notwithstanding.
Such scientific knowledge of God’s cosmos is not essential to my salvation, but it sure is an important lesson in humility.
Part of my morning on-line routine is studying a bit of Scripture and gazing at the Astronomy Picture of the Day. The NETBible and APOD have permanent tabs on my Firefox browser for my daily lesson in humility.
Dave, tiny speck.
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man, that is awesome. the picture looks transposed, but i believe it… too bad i don’t remember really all that well getting a good veiw of the hale comet in 1997. The routine you mentioned sounds like a valuable one to pick up.
Hi Kyle,
Why does the picture look transposed? My window view showed it moving from right to left like in the picture, if memory serves, which it doesn’t always.
hey Granpa,
I was just looking at those green mountains and probably used the wrong word, great picture though. I really have enjoyed your writing on Pauls letters to Timothy.
I have fond memories of walking up to the northwest corner of our old Knox County place in 1997 and gazing at that amazing comet, the best one I have ever seen. No wonder the ancients saw comets as portents!