Mars

[redbird]

cattitude and I each woke around 1 a.m. overnight. He said "Mars" and pointed, and I looked. Yes, that's Mars.

Then he went and got the binoculars. No visible difference, alas: these are birding binoculars, and fine for that but not enough to bring Mars in.

I think there's a small telescope somewhere in the back of a closet, but it's been sitting in its box since the 1980s, and I don't think I'm going to dig it out and remember what to do in the next couple of days.

(One of the local papers had a nice image of the planet, and the word CLOSEUP, as its front-page headline yesterday. Sometimes you know it's August.)