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Look! Stars!
Mar. 8th, 2002 03:58 pm
"The moon is shadowed by the earth tonight, and I can say
That it's a color that I have never seen..."
I miss my college astronomy class.
I miss Sidewalk Astronomy, our teacher's hobby of setting up a telescope on College Walk on a clear night and inviting passersby to look through it. I remember the time we did that on the night of a lunar eclipse, and wound up overlapping a harvest-moon festival being run by the Asian Studies department; orange paper lanterns everywhere, and up above us the moon slowly turns a sullen red and then begins to vanish....
I can still find North on a clear night, but I've forgotten the names of half the constellations I'm using to find it. I can identify Venus and Jupiter, but not Mars or Saturn.
I wonder if I could find my old planisphere if I started hunting through college papers.
I wonder if I still have the textbook.
I wonder if it'll be clear tonight.
That it's a color that I have never seen..."
I miss my college astronomy class.
I miss Sidewalk Astronomy, our teacher's hobby of setting up a telescope on College Walk on a clear night and inviting passersby to look through it. I remember the time we did that on the night of a lunar eclipse, and wound up overlapping a harvest-moon festival being run by the Asian Studies department; orange paper lanterns everywhere, and up above us the moon slowly turns a sullen red and then begins to vanish....
I can still find North on a clear night, but I've forgotten the names of half the constellations I'm using to find it. I can identify Venus and Jupiter, but not Mars or Saturn.
I wonder if I could find my old planisphere if I started hunting through college papers.
I wonder if I still have the textbook.
I wonder if it'll be clear tonight.
