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Beautiful imagery of dusk there.. I love being outside during those times of twilight, both evening and morning, to enjoy the day/night transition, the sky colors, the air.

I have a new reason to be outside when the Sun is below the horizon- one of my childhood interests was astronomy, and I've recently had a resurgence in this interest. And, dusk & dawn are the only times when satellites in low Earth orbit are visible, including the ISS (International Space Station), which can be brighter than the planet Venus sometimes. I'm enjoying stargazing, with or without my 11x80 binoculars.

Sounds like you're in a colder climate than me. Here in SoCal, it doesn't get cold enough for snow and ice (here in the coastal areas, anyway), although, rarely, it can dip into the low 30s on clear nights, for a touch of frost on grassy areas. Regardless, being outside is something I'm enjoying more and more, as I get older. Staring at a computer screen for hours a day is not something I want to do for the rest of my life. The Universe revealed in the night sky beckons..

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~inquiry wrote:

Yeah, quite a ways north of SoCal.

Prolly quite a bit older, too.

Your childhood astronomy interest mention reminded me of my own fascination that direction as a kid, having me remember what a bible a particular edition of this:

"Sky Observer's Guide"

was to me.

I had a 240x refractor... from *Sears*, I believe. It had a finder scope, a couple lenses (don't remember the mm's, though..), a "Barlow" lens (don't remember the magnification factor), and whatever the lens that inverts the image is called.

The first time I saw Saturn through it was the die and go to heaven zone, for sure. I actually recorded the event on a reel-to-reel tape recorder, mostly whispering to avoid awakening family members, and *probably* still have that tape... but the magnetization was certainly lost to time, never mind noting the tape material itself being far too frail to be subjected to the herky-jerky mechanics of tape replay again.