As much as I love the
Fourth of July, it is not a prime time to grab the
astronomy binocular and do some serious observing, though I was really tempted, this year. Saturday rains kept most folks indoors, but the sky cleared at night, so I grabbed my
Nikon Astroluxe and stepped out on the patio. My plan was to do some lunar observing, but I had forgotten, for a moment, that it was the Fourth. I was quickly greeted, of course, by clouds of black powder smoke hanging low to the ground, all from fireworks still in progress. Now, had I been a hundred feet higher in the air, above all the clouds of smoke, I might have had a good night with the
astronomy binocular. Oh, well, when it's time to celebrate, we celebrate. When it is time to do astronomy, we do astronomy. Hope everyone had a good Fourth.