I often, beside the sea, used to gaze out at curtains of rain under clouds, like a skate under a foot.
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The Eclipse is Just Two Lunations Away
What is new in this view of Friday’s evening sky?
The sky scene, June 20 morning
One More Device
Becoming aware of the nearest stars is an event that makes the blood tingle; it is like emerging from a hole in the ground. Continue reading “One More Device”
Saturn’s 2017 opposition
The undark nights of summer
For most of June, and into July, the Sun is so far north in the sky that it doesn’t get much below our horizon.
Peter the Great on the banks of the Thames
Tsar Peter was uncommonly tall, but I didn’t know he was this much taller than me.
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The sky scene, May 30 evening
The evening sky is still almost uninhabited by planets.
The rescue boats of Dunkirk
I came upon this spectacle by sheer luck, though it’s only five hundred yards from my door.
Yet again the need for Approval Voting
I’ve received my postal ballot, in advance of the June 8 British election. As with so many elections, it demonstrates, glaringly, Continue reading “Yet again the need for Approval Voting”