I couldn’t sleep at all last night. Maybe too much caffeine at dinner. It was super dark as I lay there and I was trying to come up with a constellation idea for all the technology in our master bedroom.
The only constellations that really make sense to me are the dippers (dipping spoons as Boo calls them) and the snake (hydra)…..but when I look up at the sky I see thousands of dipping spoons and hydras. I don’t know how they came up with all those other pictures from the stars. So it makes sense that the lights in my room could make up a donut, right?
Boo loves using the Star Walk app at night……holding it up to the sky and registering where the stars are. Your smartphone or iPad knows exactly where you are and holding it up to the sky: what’s on your screen is what’s actually in the sky. It’s pretty much the coolest app we’ve ever purchased:
Tons of planet information:
Constellation info:
Even satellites and space stations:
Hope you are having a great Labor Day!
Hahahahaha! I love your doughnut constellation. And it makes as much sense as the other ones we’re supposed to learn. (Except for the dipping spoons, I too can see those usually). Thanks for the laugh.
OMG, my house is the worst with indor LED’s they are everywhere. No wonder when the power is out, I can’t sleep because I miss my indoor constellations! LOL. Ash there is a neat IPAD app I got as well called SPACEJUNK, that shows satelights and space junk you can see. Also, if you are really geeky, you can get an old sat dish, install this software on your computer, and grab KU& Cband signals bouncing off satelites. It’s called SKYGRABBER! That sounds like fun. On my list to do . I want to even get a YAGI Antenna and listen into Amature radio satellites, how that’s even more geeky. Boo needs to get her amature radio operators license and try and CQ and bounce signals off amature radio sattelites in low orbit. 🙂 ahhhaha..
Oh no! I just know I’ll be checking out all the lights tonight too!
Here in New Zealand we don’t see the Big Dipper, we see the Southern Cross which has two bright stars (called pointers) pointing towards it.