Past three Thursdays in a row have been cloudy and rainy. Tomorrow, however, looks good so I'm really psyched about getting out with the students. Nothing better than standing outside at night under a starlit sky and looking around (even on our notoriously light-polluted campus). A local author once wrote about our campus at night:
As I watched in horror, I also became aware of a strange glow in the sky. The sun had set, but a blood-red aura appeared across the fields, emanating from a site half a mile away. I knew that there was a commuter college somewhere over there, known as [edited out by me], and as the evening descended, the school's system of anticrime lights flared into phosphorescence. Atmospheric conditions stained the light red, and the college glowed like a Martian heliport.
A Place in the Country
Laura Shaine Cunningham
Awfully hard to do good astronomical observing at a Martian heliport but we manage!
By the way, if you haven't been outside to see Jupiter this past month, you're missing a great sight - it's the brightest thing in the southeastern sky.
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