Look out for the appearance of a very bright new object in the sky later next month. It's expected there will only be one star (Sirius) that is brighter. Any correspondence with the coming of Christmas is (probably) entirely coincidental :-) Russell McMahon -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics