Night Sky Observing Gifts

A man watches shadow puppets on the moon

'The church says the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round for I have seen the shadow on the Moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.'

"We can see through the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and into all those distant stars up there in outer space... truly remarkable, huh, girl?"

Swinging on a star.

"A full moon! It's like Mother Nature turning on a night light!"

"Wait... what was it I came up here for?"

"What the... mine are lunar eclipse glasses!"

'I don't know which was prettier - the meteor shower or the cascade of flaming space junk.'

"And that little pinpoint of light? That’s our new baby."

Imagination Navigation.

Serenading

'Which one is named after me?'

"Something goes around something, but that's as far as I've got."

"It's nowhere near as far away as we thought!"

"Hickory smoke—that's what gives it that hearty Western flavor."

Dog Howling the Moon way

Wish upon a star (well it's worth a try).

Romantic Moon

'Perhaps the surest evidence intelligent life exists out there is the fact it hasn't revealed itself to us thus far.'

"I've either discovered dark matter, or I've left the lens cap on."

"Another nightmare?"

'I have to say, the stars are magnificent in the desert at night...'

'Do you ever get the feeling that baseball is a national obsession?'

'Yes, there are a lot of stars, Son. Not as many as there are California Chardonnays, but a lot, just the same.'

'I love looking at the stars. I think of us as celestial paparazzi.'

"You're right. This is better than sex."

Scientist drinking night sky through telescope

Skimming out star reflections

'Face facts, Lenny †your boomerang is not coming back.'

'We discovered a massive dust and gas cloud which is either the beginning of a new star of just a hell of a lot of dust and gas.'

The Moon Falls Out of the Sky.

Entry level astronomer...

'Millions of billions of trillions of light years away? I could visualise it if you said it in MILES!'

'There it is. Just above Orion's Pants.'

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