Final Frontier

Let it go
I had read about Earth&Sky star gazing tours in one of the many, many flyers, magazines, leaflets that you collect on these trips… It sounded great, a night time tour on top of a mountain, with astronomers from the observatory in one of the darkest parts of the country…. I was even more thrilled to […] Read More

Super/Natural

Let it go
Night came early. It was pitch black at 9 o’clock. I went to the beach and had an amazing experience: The full moon high in the sky above the Pacific Ocean. So bright I cast a clear shadow. The animal sounds. The deserted beach at night. The sea looking like silver and black at the same time. […] Read More

Matariki

Let it go
After 6 months on the southern hemisphere, I finally made it to a planetarium…. What I wanted to do already in the first week, but scrapped because of language issues, children’s programs of some comic figures hopping on the moon, renovations or the usual I’ll do that tomorrow…. It was worth it. We had a […] Read More

Southern skies

Let it go
I’m confused. It’s all different. The sun is in the north and runs the opposite way I expect it. The moon: way too high in the sky for what I’m used for, right on top of me. It’s a half moon right now, but not half as in left-right, but tilted, so it looks like a […] Read More