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Monday, November 28, 2005

 

Twinkle, Twinkle little star

Seeing stars twinkling is a special experience, somehow we expect to see stars twinkle, and feel a bit cheated if thay don't. Of course the same twinkling heralds atmospheric trubulence which makes for lousy planetary viewing, where you image dances around like water on a stove. Tonight I just went out to have my evening peek at the stars, and they were doing the most amazing twinkling I can rememeber seeing, a real stellar jitterbug. It almost looked like a speeded up Hollywood special effect. Guess I'm not taking the scope out then.

# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 10:11 pm
Comments:
[chortles] I get that effect all the time, Ian -- it's astigmatism ;-)
# posted by Blogger flipsockgrrl : 12:32 pm
 
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