3 Dec
2011
3 Dec
'11
4:44 p.m.
On 12/3/11, erikhansen@thebluezone.net <erikhansen@thebluezone.net> wrote:
Add the Zodiacal Light to the near-sky list for me. At times its left me
utterly awestruck.
Funny how mere dust can do that to us. Galaxies, planetary nebulae, double stars...all are incredible events unfolding in the eyepiece, yet a distended disk of dust- "dirt", to use the parlance of stellar astronomers- in our own astronomical backyard, can reduce us to speechlessness. That towering triangle of light...completely humbling.