Day 1162: A very busy Friday night
May. 26th, 2023 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeWe did a whole bunch of fun things this evening!
First – tonight was the Asian Night Market, a new event downtown that partly takes the place of the annual Asian Celebration, which couldn’t be indoors as much due to Covid. We didn’t go last year, but even though I was rather sleepy and stuffy today, we decided to go take a look. We found S’s booth right outside, where there were several other vendors. She had such a fancy pink parasol that she was using for shade. We also looked for food booths, as I hoped to get jab chae from the Korean group that sells it at the Asian Celebration, but no – there were only an Indian place, a Chinese place, and various places with sweets. Since they were doing loud taiko drumming inside, we didn’t linger. I did see AP and her husband from the youth orchestras, and Kim and Jannie from Delgani.
After we got home, we read outside until it was time for the Friday movie. J finished his book club book, Hester, and quite liked it. Then it was movie time, and this week it was Demolition Man, which has some very entertaining dialogue, because Southern California in 2032 will be like that, of course. Afterwards, I went home to get my laptop and looked at the calendar, and realized…
Star party! We hadn’t been to the monthly star party in years. The College Hill reservoir, where it’s held, is going to get converted into new tanks in 2024, so this year is the last chance. We spent more than an hour there, looking through the telescopes of members of the astronomy society. We saw the moon, of course, and Mars (which is quite distant from Earth now, barely even looking red), and Venus (a bright crescent). We also saw a loose cluster of stars called the Beehive Cluster, in Cancer; a “wall of of stars” in Ophiuchi; the Ring Nebula; another loose cluster of stars called IC-4665; a double star system called Albireo or the “Eye of the Swan” (Cygnus); and the star Antares, which is red but glittered in a lot of colors when seen through the telescope. I also saw the ISS passing by, while looking through a telescope, although it can be seen without a telescope too. Added later: Also a meteor in the east.
Here’s the moon photo I took through someone’s telescope – the image is reversed from how it actually looks in the sky.
I also chatted some with Jerry Oltion, a science fiction writer who was showing people the sights through the telescope he invented. He’d helped D. with a school project years ago. He told me that a novella he’d written had won an award from Analog last year, called “Shepherd Moons,” so when we got home I found it online.
First – tonight was the Asian Night Market, a new event downtown that partly takes the place of the annual Asian Celebration, which couldn’t be indoors as much due to Covid. We didn’t go last year, but even though I was rather sleepy and stuffy today, we decided to go take a look. We found S’s booth right outside, where there were several other vendors. She had such a fancy pink parasol that she was using for shade. We also looked for food booths, as I hoped to get jab chae from the Korean group that sells it at the Asian Celebration, but no – there were only an Indian place, a Chinese place, and various places with sweets. Since they were doing loud taiko drumming inside, we didn’t linger. I did see AP and her husband from the youth orchestras, and Kim and Jannie from Delgani.
After we got home, we read outside until it was time for the Friday movie. J finished his book club book, Hester, and quite liked it. Then it was movie time, and this week it was Demolition Man, which has some very entertaining dialogue, because Southern California in 2032 will be like that, of course. Afterwards, I went home to get my laptop and looked at the calendar, and realized…
Star party! We hadn’t been to the monthly star party in years. The College Hill reservoir, where it’s held, is going to get converted into new tanks in 2024, so this year is the last chance. We spent more than an hour there, looking through the telescopes of members of the astronomy society. We saw the moon, of course, and Mars (which is quite distant from Earth now, barely even looking red), and Venus (a bright crescent). We also saw a loose cluster of stars called the Beehive Cluster, in Cancer; a “wall of of stars” in Ophiuchi; the Ring Nebula; another loose cluster of stars called IC-4665; a double star system called Albireo or the “Eye of the Swan” (Cygnus); and the star Antares, which is red but glittered in a lot of colors when seen through the telescope. I also saw the ISS passing by, while looking through a telescope, although it can be seen without a telescope too. Added later: Also a meteor in the east.
Here’s the moon photo I took through someone’s telescope – the image is reversed from how it actually looks in the sky.
I also chatted some with Jerry Oltion, a science fiction writer who was showing people the sights through the telescope he invented. He’d helped D. with a school project years ago. He told me that a novella he’d written had won an award from Analog last year, called “Shepherd Moons,” so when we got home I found it online.
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Date: 2023-05-29 09:43 am (UTC)I loved Demolition Man, it was a lot of fun.
I wish we could have an Asian Night Market like that.
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