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Stars in the Night Sky...
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blank sky,
brutish,
coarse,
constellations,
dark sky,
dark-sky,
explorers,
Geek,
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planets,
poets,
school teachers,
scientists,
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stars
I was outside the other night, and the sky was absolutely full of stars...
big ones,
little ones,
bright ones,
and faint ones that you had to look carefully to see.
I grabbed my camera to take a picture of it for you, but my camera isn't sophisticated enough to take a good picture (although, it may be the photographer :->), so I went on the Web to look for a good picture of a star-filled, night sky. Here's one that spoke to me:
Here's the link for the caption that went with this photo:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071020.html
In reading that caption, I learned a lot about why you don't see most of the stars when you live in the city.
To quote: "City dwellers have already lost most of the constellations, the planet Saturn, and a host of medium magnitude stars. They can forget about observing most meteor showers, too, or faint displays of Northern Lights.
It's a big loss. Young sky watchers grow up to be philosophers, scientists, poets, explorers, and school teachers. But kids aren't likely to watch -- or be inspired by -- a blank sky."
To learn more about this, check out: the International Dark-sky Association website: http://www.darksky.org.
big ones,
little ones,
bright ones,
and faint ones that you had to look carefully to see.
I grabbed my camera to take a picture of it for you, but my camera isn't sophisticated enough to take a good picture (although, it may be the photographer :->), so I went on the Web to look for a good picture of a star-filled, night sky. Here's one that spoke to me:
Here's the link for the caption that went with this photo:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071020.html
In reading that caption, I learned a lot about why you don't see most of the stars when you live in the city.
To quote: "City dwellers have already lost most of the constellations, the planet Saturn, and a host of medium magnitude stars. They can forget about observing most meteor showers, too, or faint displays of Northern Lights.
It's a big loss. Young sky watchers grow up to be philosophers, scientists, poets, explorers, and school teachers. But kids aren't likely to watch -- or be inspired by -- a blank sky."
To learn more about this, check out: the International Dark-sky Association website: http://www.darksky.org.