Wednesday 8 October 2008

Aware of my own existance


Worked late last night..It is nice to stroll back to the car park, in the dark, picking out familiar stars..The moon was half full with Saturn aglow next to it..
Up early this morning and Orion was glowing fierce.. I took a minute or two and observed its familiar shape, reassuringly back in its place ,in an often chaotic universe..
Betelgeuse is larger than the circumference of the earths orbit and burns red in the top left hand corner.. Rigel burns blue in the bottom right and is larger than the Orbit of Mars..
Both names are Arabic, and were given by ancient scholars who perhaps observed them on caravan journeys across Arabia long ago...

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