Merry Christmas Cards!
And then I wrote… There was a joke when I was growing up in Michigan, that the state’s Secretary of State had one job, to choose the color of the license plates; and every year he blew it! Well, one of the jobs I get as director of the Observatory is choosing the picture and text for our Christmas Cards every year. And, yes, people complain! I thought I would share some cards from Years Past… The “rules” for the card are simple. It has to have a nice photo from the Observatory itself, and a text in both English and Italian that relates both to astronomy and to the season. Antonio Coretti, our IT guru and designer in Rome, puts the cards together and then sends them off to the Vatican press to be printed. Alas, not this year; finances are tight and so we couldn’t afford to print or mail cards. Instead, we prepared an electronic version. In … Continue reading →