Arcturus first out of the dusk
Amber and unmistakable in the west while the sky was still the colour of weak tea. Everything else waited another twenty minutes.
Naked-eye almanac · Issue Nineteen
A whole-hemisphere plot drawn for the flat field behind the observatory shed. Drag the hour dial and the dome turns beneath a fixed horizon, exactly as it does when you stand still long enough to notice.
Four observers · one thermos
Amber and unmistakable in the west while the sky was still the colour of weak tea. Everything else waited another twenty minutes.
Vega near enough overhead to hurt your neck, Deneb trailing, Altair low and flickering through the warm air off the barn roof.
Long green streak out of the north-east, five or six seconds of train. Nobody had a camera pointed the right way, as usual.
Ground fog crept in from the ditch and swallowed the horizon ring below about six degrees. Transparency overhead unaffected.
Every star plotted on the chart above, in order of brightness. Click a row to move the selection ring on the dome.
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