I was star gazing last night.The September sky is in full blazing Milky Way glory. Sometimes the fog obscures things and you just have to be patient... Jupiter and her moons are clearly visible in the southern sky..directly overhead you'll see bright stars, double gold and silver stars, and constellations abound...Cygnus the Swan is a favorite. You can see this mind boggling starfield really well with a good pair of binocs..15X70 ...and a basic 700mm telescope..The last time the sky was this wondrous was when Halle-Bopp was passing overhead and all those folks in San Diego decided to hitch a ride with an elixir of drugs and vodka..Godspeed mi amigos!Well..this morning there was no fog. This was a rare event in September at 6:00 AM...normally it looks like pea soup outside..so I stumble out of bed, go to the kitchen to start the coffee, gaze out the living room window and see a bunch of stars in the south, over the ocean! There's a bright one, a few double stars in rungs like a ladder, and one cluster that absolutely blew me away..a Nebula that sent shivers down my spine and got me to thinking...maybe Craig McCaw was right about the aliens coming down and how we are going to deal with them...this is where all our energies should be..not the war, not the economy, not the hosers in Alaska..the answers are evident..all you gotta do is look up..if everyone on earth did this for 30 minutes, we would have world peace, which is my ultimate goal...
Gort.."Klaatu Barada Nikkto"
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