Recent content by MBob

Please help me out, here, Chronos. I read your last statement and was saying to myself, "OK, that's him, I've had a different experience, no problem." But then I got to your "IMO" which, I guess in the, to me silly, world of texting, means "in my opinion" and that tells me that you think I'm...

It depends. Sometimes I'll deliberately have a two or three large mugs of coffee if I need to stay alert for some reason, but in those cases I'm not happy with the way my head feels. I can function fine, it's just vaguely unpleasant to feel that way. On the other hand, although I don't make a...

Most of what you said is true but I disagree with part of it. As a former pack a day smoker for three decades, including daily inhaled cigars for the last several years, I went cold turkey. My lungs seemed to boil, it felt like something was crawling around in there, for I don't remember how...

Yes, it very clearly appears to be a lens flare. The region of the sky you're looking at is in Cygnus. Deneb is the bright star above your flare. Close to the position of a Cataclysmic Variable named SS Cyg which I have observed, and reported on, dozens of times at least. There is no object...