On May 10, 6:12*pm, James Harris wrote:

In short, astronomy is far from boring. Of all the sciences it is one
which is disproportionately full of wonders and there are plenty of
topics within astronomy to bring to the public a sense of awe for many
years to come - as long as it is presented properly.

James

There is a sense of awe alright ! - how the greatest and must
destructive scam in human history is played out through the education
system,through the patronage of the peer review system which serves
the reputations and salaries of the reviewers, by the replacement of
explanations with speculative modeling by exploiting the calendar
based Ra/Dec system,the foisting of mathematicians over astronomers by
projecting a non geometric language to explain the celestial arena and
the voodoo language that accompanies it.The wider community sees these
guys stand behind a blackboard full of equations and imagine the
mathematicians have some insight into astronomy denied those who
cannot read what the symbols represent yet when basic interpretative
insights are brought before these mathematicians they are lost up to
and including the main insight for the Earth's orbital motion -

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap011220.html