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Between a star and a ground telescope, moving air shifts, blurs, and flickers the light. Seeing, scintillation, refraction, and adaptive optics describe different parts of that last stretch of the journey.
The Moon was visible above the neighbor's roof, and I almost walked past it. I was carrying a bag, thinking about dinner and behaving as though a bright world suspended above the garden were merely
The clouds won. I had carried the binoculars outside, found the notebook and arranged a chair before noticing that the promising gap in the sky was closing with considerable enthusiasm.
