After an intense period of trying to organise a children's party - lots of walking, lots of cycling in the rain, getting locked in a venue - I've not had much time to write for you this last week, and the freezing weather has prevented any expeditions on the bike.
Ugh, how fat winter makes me feel.
-7 nights however have proved to be a blessing, with infinite skies diamond strewn with stars. Mars shines red among them, and I got some ok photos with my Pixel 6A of Gemini, Auriga, Taurus and Orion, the great winter constellations.
The universe is crazy to think about, how these balls of firey fusion energy of varying luminosities and colours randomly scattered in the cosmos, form these patterns that are immediately familiar - I've known the form of Orion since I was a small child.
It will still look the same when I'm a very old man, but at a universal scale this is nothing. Eons from now, these patterns will have been destroyed by the march of space time.
Almost too much to think about.
Si
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Great photos. I never learned the various constellations, though the general pattern must have embedded itself somewhere in my brain - when I went to Australia I remember looking up at their night time sky and immediately recognised that it was "all wrong"!
ReplyDeleteThank you John! I'd love to see the southern constellations we never see here
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