I’m extra excited because I may be able to make out the entire Scorpius constellation for the first time in years!
We live in the middle of nowhere with NO light pollution, so there’s THAT, but I’ve been here three years now and I still struggle with figuring out where everything ‘is’ after living at my other farm where I knew all of the Heavens by Heart over my 25 years of living there.
I loved teaching my boys about the night sky, camping out on the deck for the whole month of August and counting ‘falling stars’ with them, welcoming the Returning Hero, Orion, each fall into winter, etc. ;)
That probably sounds weird, but it is what it is. We get to observe this AMAZING Universe for SUCH a short period of time; the blink of an eye, really.
I don’t want to miss a thing! :)
you can use an app like Star Tracker
to guide you through the night sky.
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Great! Get a good set of binoculars (or one for you and one for each child) and go learn the sky. You can get bios that can be fixed on a tripod if it will help.
I’ve been into astronomy for 50+ years now, and I am still amazed by a good dark night away from everywhere.
We are out cruising in our sailboat (or trying to anyway). I have a small scope for use when we get out in the Bahamas or South Pacific and can dinghy in to an island for some real dark sky observing.