Snow

I saw snow this morning shortly after sunrise. Not much of it, and the weather could turn it all to rain later, but still...snow.

We'll see how long it lasts, right?

About the Ottawa Municipal Elections?

If you're eligible to vote in those, you might want to look at this particular collection of links:

http://ottawastart.com/a-roundup-of-municipal-election-candidate-qas-and-debates/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/school-board-election-1.4869785

(no subject)

An acquaintance of mine at one of the 2300 AD role-playing game's forums on Facebook with a penchant for data mining found a few candidates that, while not exactly matching the "six light years" distance to Gamma Hydrae cited in the first two episodes of DSC, are close enough that the various fictional nebulae created for other Trek series' purposes might have pushed one or another of them off-galactic-orbital course enough to put them where the DSC writers want it.

Links to the candidate stars - neither of which may be binaries - to follow:

http://simbad.harvard.edu/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=BD-22+3528&submit=SIMBAD+search

http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-S?Gaia+DR2+6193513711811335168

New(/old?) friends...

Thanks to notasupervillain for adding me to their own reading list here...

Exoplanet Count - 18 October 2018

As of two days ago, the count at exoplanet.eu was 3869 planets. I'm led to understand that other sites have a higher "confirmed" count...?