AMAZING
night! I sat out on deck enjoying the view of the Milky Way (plus a
few bright meteors) from 2130 to 0115, when my eyes just couldn't stay
open anymore. No telescope, not even binoculars--just me and my camp
chair and a big insulated mug of tea, grokking the light fantastic.
It's hard to describe the sight of the starry night at sea; think of the
darkest night you've ever seen and make it darker, with so many dimmer
stars visible that it seems difficult to pick out the brighter ones that
form our constellations. Saturn was an amber beacon near the claws of
the Scorpion and the star-clouds of Scutum and Sagittarius looked like
actual CLOUDS in the sky!
Wow.
Wow.
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