Things I haven't seen in the sky
Oct. 21st, 2024 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sniffnoySo I wrote a while back about going on that unplanned trip with Yanan and some of her friends to go see the solar eclipse.
Since then, more things have happened in the sky around here, some of which Yanan alerted me to! Unfortunately, I've missed most of it...
The big aurora a few months ago I missed because I was down in North Carolina at the time, visiting Hunter and Lee and Colin and Aviva. The more recent aurora I missed because various things kept me inside that day -- I ended up going out to try and see it, heading down to Battery Park, at like 11 PM, but by that point it was too late. (Although I did there run into some other friends of mine who made the same mistake...)
I did catch the recent partial lunar eclipse, although wow that was a lame one -- but I've certainly seen (total) lunar eclipses before, even here in New York. But the big one recently was Comet A3.
Nic, Hunter (who was visiting), and I tried to see it from Nic's roof on Wednesday, but we weren't able to see anything. The next day Yanan and I tried to see it from Pier 76, but we didn't manage to see anything either. I do have to say, not being much of a stargazer, that wow, I did not realize Venus was so bright! But, uh, that's always there I guess. :P The two of us did run into another pair of stargazers who had a fancy telescopic camera; it, like, just barely managed to register the comet. So oh well. Guess it wasn't bright enough to see from the city. I mean, I guess that's not a big surprise, but I was hoping...
-Harry
Since then, more things have happened in the sky around here, some of which Yanan alerted me to! Unfortunately, I've missed most of it...
The big aurora a few months ago I missed because I was down in North Carolina at the time, visiting Hunter and Lee and Colin and Aviva. The more recent aurora I missed because various things kept me inside that day -- I ended up going out to try and see it, heading down to Battery Park, at like 11 PM, but by that point it was too late. (Although I did there run into some other friends of mine who made the same mistake...)
I did catch the recent partial lunar eclipse, although wow that was a lame one -- but I've certainly seen (total) lunar eclipses before, even here in New York. But the big one recently was Comet A3.
Nic, Hunter (who was visiting), and I tried to see it from Nic's roof on Wednesday, but we weren't able to see anything. The next day Yanan and I tried to see it from Pier 76, but we didn't manage to see anything either. I do have to say, not being much of a stargazer, that wow, I did not realize Venus was so bright! But, uh, that's always there I guess. :P The two of us did run into another pair of stargazers who had a fancy telescopic camera; it, like, just barely managed to register the comet. So oh well. Guess it wasn't bright enough to see from the city. I mean, I guess that's not a big surprise, but I was hoping...
-Harry
