Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Dab, quiet and constellations.

1. To cheer Bettany up by letting her have a bit of my perfume.

2. The faces children make when they are trying to be very, very quiet.

3. In the centre of the Grove it is dark enough and clear enough to see the stars. Bettany finds Orion,  and I point out Cassiopeia and the Pleiades on Taurus's shoulder, and what is probably Jupiter. I prefer to keep looking up, rather than launch my Stellarium app to check.

Cold, sky and Leonids.

1. The weather has changed and the cold is like a smack in the face. 2. I stop on our hill to compare the sky with my astronomy app. End up ...