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I'll give you the stars
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I'll give you the stars The Stars! How beautiful. How romantic. How amazing when you get to a place where you can really see them in all their glory. As a youth I remember camping in vermont. Out in the middle of nowhere as far as major cities and light polution are concerned. Most likely the first time I saw the milky way. It was years before I would see that many stars again. Driving though Utah in the dead of night with no moon and clear skies. What a sight. And what a difference to observe with more educated eyes. At that point I had already worked at a planetarium for a short while and been through a college astronomy course. Recently when I was in the upper peninsula of Michigan I again found myself way beyond any lights on a clear night. The kind you get in the fall or spring when the humidity is low and clouds are few. There was the milky way again. Like an old friend that you only see every now and again. But one that is always there; contant as the Northern star. lol. Waiting and ready. A few years back there was a quite impressive meteor shower predicted. It was going to be a cold night. So I got dressed as if it was winter; it's always colder when you're just sitting around. I Made up a big thermous of hot cocoa. Then parked my butt in a lawn chair out back and waited. There goes one. Hey, there's another. This is cool. Then another and another. I end up on the trampoline for a better view. Sometimes standing and at times flat out on my back. Then all of a sudden I hear out of the dark from two yards over, "Hey space, is that you?" Seems I wasn't the only one out in the cold enjoying the show. It was fantastic. I had heard of showers before but they never seemed to be as good as predicted or wouldn't be visible at night in our area. So as I try to take time to notice a sunset, the rare sunrise or the wonderful cloud formations, so do I take time to observe the stars. Do you stop and look from time to time? What have you seen? The Milky way? A shooting star or a whole meteor shower? Do you know any constellations? Ever go to a place like "Star Gazers Field" in Princeton like in the Movie IQ? (It's not actually called that but it was filmed at a real place in Princeton) Wanna see it sometime? Have you stayed up to see an eclipse of the moon or for some other celestrial event? And of course have you ever spent time with someone special just being close and looking at the stars? Maybe you brought a blanket somewhere on a warm summer evening and quietly watched the heavens. Any of this sound like fun? SR  |
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I too have done that, when the showers were predicted, although not recently. Unfortunately I am in the middle of the city with no back yard and live on a very well lit street. So unless I am out late or early as the case may be, I am out of luck. However I do gaze up at the skies as often as I can feeling very small and insignificant as I realize how large the universe really is. hotandhorny1082
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I've missed most of the meteor showers that re-occur every year (never do remember to stay up or get up early), but I do enjoy seeing Orion and the other familiar constellations on a nice clear night. Makes you think about our place in the universe, as H&H says above.
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