Stepping outside with the cat after her breakfast, I stopped to take in the sky. I felt comfort from the familiar sight and regret for not being involved with it. Astronomy is more affective than microscopy.
In neither am I truly discovering anything. In both, I only see what others have said is there: stars in a cluster; cells in a tissue. If not for the books (and websites) I would have little, if any, understanding of what I am looking at, though biology does allow more opportunity for informed inference. The walls of cells are visibly tractable while (with my instruments) the strata of stars are not.
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| On the left (south) Scorpius with Claws Zuben el Eshmali and Zuben el Genubi. To the right (west) Corvus. Xi Scorpii here and Corvus here. |
The telescopes remain all packed away. Yesterday, I put the microscopes and slides back into storage.
I expected to view the present conjunction of Saturn and Venus, and I watched the approach as of last week, but I put it off. I went out last night and saw only Venus. Checking the charts, I understood that a telescope would have provided the view I sought.
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