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Seeing old friends
Maybe it's just me, but I still get a kick out of seeing
things in the morning that I hadn't seen since they ducked behind the sun in the evening. My latest was padding out to the back yard at 0400 PDT the other morning and seeing the Pleiades, just clearing the trees. Mars was prominent and if it hadn't been getting light so quickly I would have gone back in and gotten a telescope. As it was, I settled for binoculars. Probably my all-time favourite dawn sighting was watching Orion rise at dawn last year at the Mount Kobau star party (early August). Magic! Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Que les nuages soient notre Grid: CN89mg pied a terre..." ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - Hospital/Shafte |
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laura halliday wrote:
Probably my all-time favourite dawn sighting was watching Orion rise at dawn last year at the Mount Kobau star party (early August). Magic! Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Que les nuages soient notre Grid: CN89mg pied a terre..." ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - Hospital/Shafte Hi Laura, It was in August of 1969 that I first noticed what I later learned is Orion's Belt - I was fascinated by the line of three stars rising over the houses towards east in the dawn sky. I looked at books in the school library, the town's technical library and a friend showed me Patrick Moore's Astronomy Yearbook, which had a complete year of monthly charts showing how to identify the major constellations. Orion in the dawn was my introduction to Astronomy. Have you seen this page .. ? http://www.astrosurf.org/lombry/qsl-hamsinthesky.htm ... possibly not because you're not there. 73, Ian -- Ian Stirling, G4ICV, AB2GR, Long Valley, New Jersey, USA. Email address is not valid: contact details are on that domain's web site. |
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laura halliday wrote: Maybe it's just me, but I still get a kick out of seeing things in the morning that I hadn't seen since they ducked behind the sun in the evening. My latest was padding out to the back yard at 0400 PDT the other morning and seeing the Pleiades, just clearing the trees. Mars was prominent and if it hadn't been getting light so quickly I would have gone back in and gotten a telescope. As it was, I settled for binoculars. Probably my all-time favourite dawn sighting was watching Orion rise at dawn last year at the Mount Kobau star party (early August). Magic! Oh yes, a Me too from here! Some of my most persistent memories are from blearily rising before dawn to see, as you name them well, old friends... Orion through pine trees at an August summer camp. Or Arcturus and Leo rising into the brightening October sky. Stuart in rainy Champaign, IL (glad for the rain for once though, it's been too dry, and we did have lovely clear dry weather just this last weekend...) |
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laura halliday wrote:
Maybe it's just me, but I still get a kick out of seeing things in the morning that I hadn't seen since they ducked behind the sun in the evening. My latest was padding out to the back yard at 0400 PDT the other morning and seeing the Pleiades, just clearing the trees. Yes, it's wonderful. Time travel is one of the prerogatives of stargazing. Even now when the nights are shortest, you can jump ahead a full season just by staying up until daybreak. The first appearance of the Pleiades is particularly magical, because they usher in the winter sky. So now, the most vexatious season for astronomy in the eastern U.S., I can look forward to the long nights, clear skies, and bug-free comfort of winter. - Tony Flanders |
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