Thanks for the link- beautiful! I love taking a starchart camping, and standing outside stargazing. Since Becky got a 3-G Ipad, I've been using an app called Starwalk.
Unfortunately, we have to go several hundred miles to get far enough away from the city to really see the sky. I get joyous anytime I have the chance to see the Milky Way. When I lived in Northern Michigan, it was always just out in the backyard.
Once I was standing in a quiet campground one night in northern IL, starchart in one hand and darkened flashlight in the other. A skunk was making his way through, on what were probably his regular rounds. I saw him coming towards me, but he didn't see me and walked practically right into me. When he got about 6 feet away, I said quietly but firmly, "Excuse me, but I'm standing here". He stopped, and then walked back the way he came from.
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