From: "Howard" <howard.fink@nyu.edu>

Date: December 30, 2009 9:29:20 AM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: NGC 891

Superb image.  I am especially impressed with the description of what it takes to do good work.  It should be put to verse, along the lines of Vachel Lindsay:

Euclid

Old Euclid drew a circle

On a sand-beach long ago.

He bounded and enclosed it

With angles thus and so.

His set of solemn greybeards

Nodded and argued much

Of arc and circumference,

Diameter and such.

A silent child stood by them

From morning until noon

Because they drew such charming

Round pictures of the moon.