Posted on 07/03/2021 4:39:22 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: You can't walk along the Milky Way. Still, under a dark sky you can explore it. To the eye the pale luminous trail of light arcing through the sky on a dark, moonless night does appear to be a path through the heavens. The glowing celestial band is the faint, collective light of distant stars cut by swaths of obscuring interstellar dust clouds. It lies along the plane of our home galaxy, so named because it looks like a milky way. Since Galileo's time, the Milky Way has been revealed to telescopic skygazers to be filled with congeries of innumerable stars and cosmic wonders.
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Sometimes, when this place gets kind of empty
Sound of their breath fades with the light
I think about the loveless fascination
Under the Milky Way tonight
Lower the curtain down on Memphis
Lower the curtain down, all right
I got no time for private consultation
Under the Milky Way tonight
— The Church
bttt
I get a kick out of historians who say early Man could not have navigated the seas because they had no way to keep time. Especially at night with no sun. When there is a huge clock with a linear indicator of time in the night sky. Woke up many times at 4:00 AM right on the nose by Milky Way time. Once you learn to read it for the time of the year it is very accurate.
Hey, I know that group and song!
Wish I knew what you were looking for.
Might have known what you would find...
#10. Great photograph. I can see my house up there, 3rd star from the Left.
Thank you. It was great fun standing out in a cow pasture in the middle of nowhere at 1AM.
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