>Yes, Saipan is in the Marianas Islands. It's one of 3 inhabited islands in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, associated w/the US (we have our own customs and immigration, as opposed to Guam, 120 miles south of here, which is a US territory).
Thanks for the information.
>I've also seen, amazingly enough, the green flash on venus! I was anchored in a small atoll in the S. Pacific, watching venus set, through binoculars, not expecting to see anything unusual, really. But it flashed green upon setting...I'll bet not 1000 people have ever seen that.
Actually, I don't remember whether I read about the green flash in connection with Venus, or the Sun. In fact, it might be easier with a bright star or planet, where the light comes (almost) from a point.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
