Originally Posted by Seahawk (Post 11727671)

The sad day was Saturday morning. It had to be.
But it really wasn't sad...Batman was eerily ready if that makes any sense. My wife washed and groomed him, spent the early morning with him which always delighted him.

The Vet, a good friend of my wife's, peacefully put him down and then we put him to rest.

We are getting a stone marker. The grave site is below, all in concert with regulations. If this upsets anyone, I'll delete everything.

Hard to do but harder not to.

To Batman, a wonderful horse who had a great run.

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Originally Posted by kevin993 (Post 11728194)

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A light year is the distance that light travels in one year. Measured in miles, that distance is 5.88 trillion miles (9.46 trillion kilometers).

Objects in the night sky are far away. By comparison, the distance between Mars and Earth changes as each has its own orbit around the sun, but the furthest that Mars ever gets from earth is 249.1 million miles (401 million km). An object a light year away is over 23,605 times as far as Mars is from Earth at its furthest point.

The closest star to Earth is a triple-star system called Alpha Centauri. The two main stars are Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B. They are about 4.35 light-years from Earth. A third star called Alpha Centauri C is about 4.25 light-years from Earth, making it the closest star other than the sun. 4.25 light years is about 25 trillion miles from Earth. 25 trillion miles is a long way.

For context, the stars in the Big Dipper range from 78 to 124 light years away.

Time is an additional another element beyond mere distance. The light we see coming from a star left its point of origin in the past. The light from a star, galaxy or nebula takes time to reach us. We are not seeing the object as it is now, but rather as it looked in the past – when it emitted the light. Because everything in space is located at different distances from the earth, the night sky is a historical composite rather than a single snapshot in time.

Photo at McDonald Observatory near Ft. Davis, Texas

Originally Posted by Seahawk (Post 11727671)

Hard to do but harder not to.

Originally Posted by Skip Newsom (Post 11729457)

Fancy Pants!

5 years ago next month-

Mt. Dickerman with BIL Tom and Nala the wonder dog, walks for miles and miles for a few Doritos and some water, both of them do in fact.

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Originally Posted by Crowbob (Post 11733031)

Woohoo! The Angels are in town!

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