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<\/a>Stars everywhere…..Andromeda is only galaxy besides the Milky Way one can see with the naked eye…..that’s Perseus—-Betelgeuse is the red one….Orion won’t be up for another 2 hours. If you have trouble seeing these in the photo, look away because the rods in your peripheral vision are more sensitive to light….<\/p><\/div>\n
We listened for about 20 minutes….that’s the Summer Triangle, there’s the Northern Cross, Cassiopeia points to the North Star, Orion will be up later, so will Jupiter, M61 is reddish, the Andromeda galaxy is 2.4 million light years…..until we realized the wind was sharp and we were REALLY cold, and apart from certain names, most stars look alike. \u00a0We could have been looking at a sea of thrashing swimmers and pointing at a white swim cap and saying, “There’s Daphne.” \u00a0Who knew if it really was? \u00a0Our perspective made us even colder. \u00a0Hawai’i is famous for having 7 of the world’s 10 defined climate zones, and if the shore is a “1”, the top of Mauna Kea must be a “7”.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Back in the car, smarting from the cold but no smarter for the experience.<\/p><\/div>\n
So we rallied back to the car, where we laughed at our naivet\u00e9 and pretense of astronomical interest as we drove the 2 hours back through clouds, fog and light rain to our house, arriving well past 11 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It took us a day to recover from the 20 hours of Kona spectating. \u00a0We managed to snorkel at a nearby beach in the afternoon, and that was about it. \u00a0By Monday, we had our mojo back and, after some … Continue reading