An Eclipse Near Miss
I haven't written anything here in quite some time. Well... quite some time for me. Unfortunately, I'm still struggling with getting my health back to a stable place and I've been feeling so miserable that finding the right words and staying focused on what I am attempting to write is difficult. Staying on topic and staying focused on any task is almost impossible but I'm also having difficulty writing in a positive way so I've actually been avoiding writing here. You'll see what I mean as you continue reading this blog entry...
We went up to Stowe to meet up with some friends almost three weeks ago... I can't believe that was almost three weeks ago. It seems like last weekend! We had a great time and it was really nice getting out of the house for a change but I felt quite lousy within an hour of being out. My health only worsened over the next few hours during dinner... pain, nausea and overwhelming fatigue... and now, even though I thought I was finished recovering from my aborted colonoscopy more than two months ago, I have been struggling to stabilize my health since our short evening out with friends.
It seems like it has been months of nothingness for me. And all of this miserable health and nothingness in my life was triggered by attempting an asinine colonoscopy. (Yes, I am still quite angry with a couple of doctors who claim to be 'specialists'.)
This morning was the first morning in recent memory when I was able to look out our windows and see tiny pieces of blue sky! No rain! We've had so much rain that all the wood trim and doors of our house are swollen and sticking. Now that I saw some pieces of blue sky, I wanted to do something... anything... but, realistically speaking, I'm still feeling lousy enough to forego any thoughts of accomplishing any light work outside. Regardless, it was an odd sight seeing some blue sky though!
While trying to find something simple and low-energy to do in the house, I decided to check my astronomy program to see what is in the sky since I haven't seen the sky in what seems like months. Naturally, this morning it was daylight outside so I could only see the sun, however... if I look at the sky in this astronomy program, I can turn off the daylight so I can see all the stars that are in our brightened daylight sky but I will now see them against a darkened sky as though it was nighttime...
I was instantly shocked... Naturally, the sun is the brightest object in the sky in this rendering of our sky this morning at around 10:30am (with the daylight turned off). What surprised me was that black circle right above the sun which is our moon in silhouette! That is pretty close to being a solar eclipse!
Also in the sky this morning in the vicinity of our sun was Mercury, Jupiter and Venus.
I'm still hoping to get outside with one of my telescopes soon... day or night... at this point I don't care whether it is dark out or sunny. If it is daytime, I'll do some solar viewing and imaging if the sun isn't so low that it is behind trees (the sun doesn't get very high in the sky this time of year)... if it is nighttime, then I'll have a lot more options.
In the meantime, I'll continue my long recovery from healthcare stupidity and ignorance. Clearly, I'm still quite angry to be wasting so much time and energy. Feeling lousy only adds to the frustration.
We went up to Stowe to meet up with some friends almost three weeks ago... I can't believe that was almost three weeks ago. It seems like last weekend! We had a great time and it was really nice getting out of the house for a change but I felt quite lousy within an hour of being out. My health only worsened over the next few hours during dinner... pain, nausea and overwhelming fatigue... and now, even though I thought I was finished recovering from my aborted colonoscopy more than two months ago, I have been struggling to stabilize my health since our short evening out with friends.
It seems like it has been months of nothingness for me. And all of this miserable health and nothingness in my life was triggered by attempting an asinine colonoscopy. (Yes, I am still quite angry with a couple of doctors who claim to be 'specialists'.)
This morning was the first morning in recent memory when I was able to look out our windows and see tiny pieces of blue sky! No rain! We've had so much rain that all the wood trim and doors of our house are swollen and sticking. Now that I saw some pieces of blue sky, I wanted to do something... anything... but, realistically speaking, I'm still feeling lousy enough to forego any thoughts of accomplishing any light work outside. Regardless, it was an odd sight seeing some blue sky though!
While trying to find something simple and low-energy to do in the house, I decided to check my astronomy program to see what is in the sky since I haven't seen the sky in what seems like months. Naturally, this morning it was daylight outside so I could only see the sun, however... if I look at the sky in this astronomy program, I can turn off the daylight so I can see all the stars that are in our brightened daylight sky but I will now see them against a darkened sky as though it was nighttime...
I was instantly shocked... Naturally, the sun is the brightest object in the sky in this rendering of our sky this morning at around 10:30am (with the daylight turned off). What surprised me was that black circle right above the sun which is our moon in silhouette! That is pretty close to being a solar eclipse!
Also in the sky this morning in the vicinity of our sun was Mercury, Jupiter and Venus.
I'm still hoping to get outside with one of my telescopes soon... day or night... at this point I don't care whether it is dark out or sunny. If it is daytime, I'll do some solar viewing and imaging if the sun isn't so low that it is behind trees (the sun doesn't get very high in the sky this time of year)... if it is nighttime, then I'll have a lot more options.
In the meantime, I'll continue my long recovery from healthcare stupidity and ignorance. Clearly, I'm still quite angry to be wasting so much time and energy. Feeling lousy only adds to the frustration.
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