New journal; eclipse
Feb. 20th, 2008 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Yesterday I came across a journal called Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion, and today I downloaded and printed a bunch of articles. (Just what I need, even more articles in my big backlog stack!) I am especially looking forward to the one with a Shinto perspective on ecofeminism.
In the afternoon, I walked through the pioneer cemetery to the UO library. Sometimes, especially in spring and fall, the sky is so clear and there's such a quality to the sunlight that trees take on an especially three-dimensional look, and today was such a day. The clearness of the sky was very useful later on, when we went out to the driveway to look at the total lunar eclipse. First we saw it all orange except one bright white sliver on the lower right, then later it was gradations of dark rust with a glow at its southern pole, and finally the sunlight reclaimed its surface, starting at the bottom and working up. We used the binoculars, and we also looked at Mars and the Pleiades. Some day I really should get a telescope.
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In the afternoon, I walked through the pioneer cemetery to the UO library. Sometimes, especially in spring and fall, the sky is so clear and there's such a quality to the sunlight that trees take on an especially three-dimensional look, and today was such a day. The clearness of the sky was very useful later on, when we went out to the driveway to look at the total lunar eclipse. First we saw it all orange except one bright white sliver on the lower right, then later it was gradations of dark rust with a glow at its southern pole, and finally the sunlight reclaimed its surface, starting at the bottom and working up. We used the binoculars, and we also looked at Mars and the Pleiades. Some day I really should get a telescope.
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