OBSERVING THE NIGHT SKY There was no way I could go to sleep without going out and looking at the sky, especially after telling you about it. When I first went out, it took close to ten minutes for my eyes to adjust to the night sky. At first I didnt see any stars, but then they slowly started coming into view. As I searched the different areas of the sky I noticed that even though the moon was a little past its phase as a full moon it was very bright. There were clouds all scattered around the moon. They looked white and transparent. When I looked towards a different part of the sky I noticed it was dark then I saw the stars starting to twinkle. there were a couple of groups that I kept looking at, I even put my hands around my eyes to be able to focus better on that group of stars. As they kept twinkling, I thought, are my eyes playing tricks on me, are they only twinkling or are they actually moving. I went from one area of the sky to another examining each group as I did the first. I found myself becoming mesmerized by the beauty of the night and as I stood there I thought and wished that I had taken more interest in the stars and their constellations. I wished at that very moment that I had a telescope to look at those twinkling stars even closer.
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 06:55:35 +0000
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