Tonight

[alt_sinistra]

It looks to remain clear tonight, so if anyone would like to join me for some relaxed star gazing on the Astronomy tower, I’ll be up there after supper until curfew.

There’s a particularly good chance to see a half dozen of the brightest objects in the sky at once this week, during the first hour after sunset, and the crescent moon makes for good stargazing in general.

Comments

Re: Private message to Sally-Anne Perks and Pansy Parkinson

[alt_sinistra]

Thinking about it this morning, I know I want some distraction tonight, and I'm sure I'm not alone.

And yet, something undemanding. I'm certainly not up to complex work myself, today.

On passing things along, well. I'm glad I could answer Sally-Anne's questions.

Re: Private message to Sally-Anne Perks and Pansy Parkinson

[alt_pansy]

I know that for me at least, looking up at the stars, especially familiar ones, it's like seeing friends. And it's nice to see them in the places they're meant to be, right where you expect, and know where they'll be in a day or in a year or in a hundred years.

Re: Private message to Sally-Anne Perks and Pansy Parkinson

[alt_sinistra]

Yes, exactly. I've thought that since I knew there were stars to look at. (And to be honest, it's driven a lot of the projections project.)

They're there, and they move as you know they will. And occasionally something exciting happens - a nova, or a comet or a meteor shower. But even the novas are about the natural lifespan, the way things are supposed to work. It isn't a surprise.