Deneb

Posted on July 10, 2010 in Nature

For the past several nights, I have missed the clear skies of Spring. Last night, though, I went out to see that the clouds had burst asunder, letting in a view of Outer Space.

I noticed an odd phenomenon: pinprick flashes of light that appeared in my peripheral vision but faded to near-nothingness when I looked at them straight on. They were very specific as to their location. Yes, they were actual stars because when I pointed my Droid’s Google Sky Map at them, it named them. So even if Vega and Jupiter were the only fixed lights in the firmament, I had more than faith in these spectres. There at the Zenith, invisible to my focus, but stunning in the fringe, was Deneb.