2008-02-20

reileen: (Default)
2008-02-20 08:32 pm

#123 - The dark side of the moon.

From Yahoo!News: Lunar eclipse to occur Wednesday night

I stepped outside to take a look. The news article warned of unfavorable viewing conditions for those in the midwest, but at least here, the skies were clearer than I thought they'd be. In addition to the half-veiled moon (which is really cool), you could actually see the stars out tonight. Or maybe this is just one time that I'm actually paying attention to things around me. I thought about pulling out my astronomy book to identify some of the constellations, but I got lazy.

I used to really be into astronomy when I was in middle school. Then I saw all the math involved and got scared. But one day I'll return to it for a bit. I've always been fascinated by the idea of things outside of Earth, outside of our solar system even. So many possibilities!

EDIT: Okay, so I went outside again with my astronomy book to try my hand at constellation hunting. I think I only identified Hydrus and Octans before starting to freeze, though.

-Reileen
living clouds, my blinded eye