My husband John and I toured around Rainier National Park today. Beautiful vistas and great photos of the mountain. Amazing that it is a volcano!
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As you know, I will be presenting Atlantis and its Colony in Egypt in Portland, Oregon, this Saturday, July 18th at Raymond and Nobie Tarpey’s place, 2481 Marylshire Lane, Lake Oswego, Oregon, contact Nobie Tarpey at (503)697-8341, nobtarpey@yahoo.com.
More information about this and the following program in Anchorage Alaska can be found on my speaker web site at http://www.CaroleChapman.com/Events.html.
You may not know that I will in Anchorage, Alaska presenting a new program on August 14, 15, and 16. It is called Everyone Has a Book in Them. This seminar is both an opportunity to explore your creativity with both writing and photography and also a practical “how to” get your ideas into a book, published and promoted.
I decided to create this new program because of the emphasis Edgar Cayce puts on creativity as an expression of soul that is as powerful as the psychic. Since everyone can write, I thought it was a good place to start.
Because I am a non-fiction spirituality writer, I am also bringing my friend, national award-winning mystery writer Jean C. Keating to talk about the fiction end of book authoring.
Perhaps you’d like to join Jean and me in Alaska on August 14, 15 and 16 at the A.T.O.M. Center on 425 Raspberry Road in Anchorage, Alaska. It is a lovely time of year to vacation in one of the most beautiful wilderness destinations in North America.
Make a week of it and explore Alaska as well as your creativity! After the class, you can practice your writing and photography while vacationing in Alaska. You can write about your experiences and take photographs to illustrate your writing. Or just use your experiences in Alaska to relax your mind so you can more easily write that book you’ve been meaning to write.
For details about fees and the schedule of the Alaska program, go to the Everyone Has a Book in Them web site (there’s an early registration discount special!).
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I’m happy to say that the photographs that resulted from that part of my brain that wakes me up to take photographs are fantastic!
Both images of the Galactic Center sandwiched between Sagittarius and the circular tail of Scorpius with palm trees below and also the constellations – including all of Scorpius – turned out beautifully.
The digital photographs were taken at the Winter Star Party in the Florida Keys.
I took the photographs to illustrate the location in the sky of the center of the Milky Way Galaxy because there will be an alignment of the sun and earth with the Giant Black Hole at the Galactic Center on December 21, 2012.
I am very happy. And, I thank that part of my brain that wakes me up to take photographs!
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These were the last two days of the Winter Star Party. Knowing how pragmatic my amateur astronomer friends are, I decided to wait until the last two days to interview people about 2012. That way, they would have had time to get to know me during the first part of the week and be comfortable with me. I surmised that if I started the week with questions about 2012, the end of the world, spiritual awakening, and a projected alignment of the earth and sun with the galactic center,they would have considered me to be pretty weird.
I was right. Even with my careful planning, I received numerous good natured reassessments of my character. They now know who I am. Nonetheless, a number of friends agreed to be interviewed on camera and have allowed me to include them in my 2012 movie.
After a number of hours of star gazing – it was a beautiful clear sky full of glowing nebulae, galaxies, and globular clusters – I went to bed content and satisfied that I had accomplished all that I had meant to do at the Winter Star Party.
As I drifted off to sleep, I instructed that part of my brain that wakes me up to take photographs that I already had two adequate images of Sagittarius and Scorpius with the Galactic Center sandwiched between them. And, I preferred that I NOT, I repeat NOT, want to be awakened at 5 AM (when these two constellations are enough above the horizon for picture taking) UNLESS, and I repeat UNLESS, the sky was absolutely perfect, and I mean PERFECT, which meant absolutely NO haze at the horizon where these two constellations sit this time of year.
Since a bank of clouds had begun to obscure the stars at around 11 PM because of a cold front descending into the Florida keys from the north, I felt pretty secure that I would be able to get a full night’s sleep for the first time since the beginning of the Winter Star Party. Days of clear skies have led to a serious lack of sleep.
However, you can imagine my consternation when my eyes popped open at 5 AM on the button! I argued with that part of me that wakes me up to take photographs that this was likely a mistake and the sky couldn’t possibly be that good. I listened for muted voices around the telescopes. If I can hear people talking outside my cabin, I know the sky is good enough that they are awake viewing. I heard nothing!
Content, I drifted off to sleep until I woke up abruptly at 5:27 AM. Still no voices! But, I could not drift back to sleep. So, just to prove to myself that there was no reason to wake up and take photographs, I felt around for my red flashlight, turned it on, located my socks and shoes, put them on, and stumbled out into the darkness.
Immediately, I saw a moving dark form – one of my friends. By the way the man moved, I surmised it to be Dan, the fellow who taught me where to find the Galactic Center.
“Is that you, Carol?” he asked in a hushed tone so as not to wake up our friends sleeping in cabins and tents around us.
“Hi Dan,” I said.
“Thank God you’re up,” he said, “Sagittarius and Scorpius are fantastic – the best they’ve been this week! No haze at the horizon either! They’re already over the treetops!”
I grabbed my gear, attached my camera to its tripod using the red light from my flashlight, and took 60 second exposures of one of the most magnificent areas of the sky – the warm glow that marks the magnificent Giant Black Hole at the center of the Milky Way.
I kept holding the shutter down until the rising sun lit the sky so bright that I could no longer see the stars.
How does that part of me that wakes me up to take photographs know these things!!!!
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After my great success making a digital photograph of the galactic center yesterday morning, I awoke this morning at 2:30 AM full of enthusiasm for making a videotape of the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. The galactic center is the place with which the earth will be lined up on the winter solstice, December 21, 2012. Many people believe this momentous event will herald great changes on earth.
Therefore, I wanted to photograph the galactic center which happens to be in the constellation of Sagittarius close to Scorpio. And I did.
However, when I woke up this morning and tried to take a videotape of the center of the Milky Way, I was not successful at all. As one of my amateur astronomer friends explained to me today, since the video camera shutter operates at 1/30th of a second, it is simply too fast to capture the night sky.
Yesterday, I had called my camera manufacturer and asked one of their technicians how to set the camcorder so it would videotape star constellations. The technician said it could NOT be done. I had to try anyway. I set the camcorder on “night” and gave it a try. As I said, it did not work. Now I know.
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I am so happy because last night – actually between 4 and 5 AM – I finally got a photograph of the galactic center. It is so cool!!!
You can see Sagittarius and the tail of Scorpio right beside it. And, there, glowing quietly, the galactic center.
The problem has been clouds and haze. I’ve woken up four mornings, crept around in the dark to the “berm” where you can see the whole sky . . . and have only seen haze covering the stars.
This morning, the big problem, even though the stars were visible to the horizon, was wind. I feared that with such long exposures – over 30 seconds – I would only get blurry light spots. However, I held tightly to my tripod so it would not quiver in the gusts. The result? I have at least one photograph that beautifully shows the constellations and the center of the Milky Way!
Yay!
On December 21, 2012, the earth and sun will line up with the galactic center. Some think this will create momentous events on earth. We shall see!
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While paranormal investigators scanned the Sandusky Hotel in Sandusky, Indiana, for ghosts, a floating orb appeared, which was captured on video. At the same time, the paranormal investigator’s instruments registered heightened electrical energy. The Sandusky Hotel used to be a nursing home. Investigators deemed it a likely candidate for ghosts since people had died during the time the building had been a nursing home.
Another interesting incident occurred when a video camera captured a moving orb, or transparent ball. Stone notes that an orb is on the left in the video and says that instruments showed a burst of electrical energy.
Ghost’s2009 My Story: Ghost hunters investigate Sandusky’s Hotel Rieger
Although the orb appeared on videotape, Rob Stone, of Nomine Paranormal Research of Fort Wayne, Indiana, said that investigators have to be careful about attributing orbs to ghosts. He also said that about 99.9 percent of the time, orbs in photographs are produced by dust, insects and other natural phenomena.
I wonder, then, was this orb the 0.1 percent of orbs that is actually spirit based, according to Rob Stone’s definition of orbs, or was it a floating dust mote?
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