In message , Patty Winter
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In article ,
Jonathan Silverlight wrote:

I posted the question here because I'd seen it asked on
uk.sci.astronomy, and there was a reply that it's on the European
Southern Observatory site at
http://www.vt-2004.org/photos/images/vt-photo-01-toma.jpg. Very
pretty!

Wow, that's some photograph! (Or series of photos, I should say.)
Talk about a once-in-a-lifetime photo!

My brother was suitably scornful about things you've never seen before
and you'll never see again (an old joke about nuts came up), but it's
still possible that this will _never_ happen again. It's too early to
make predictions for 2012, though.