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One summer, I foundmyself living alone in the urban home of some friends, “housesitting” for them while they were on vacation. I was recently divorced and hadn’t yet readjusted to the single life. The empty house seemed strange and spooky, and the nights promised to be long. Luckily, I’d brought my 6-inch Dobsonian telescope with me, and when the skies cooperated I had no lack of friends to visit on these summer evenings. Looking out at the darkening sky on one surprisingly clear if substantially light-polluted evening,my gaze ran across the southeasternhorizonand I foundmyself drawn to one of these friends, mysterious Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer and First Physician (in the guise of Aesclepius). His stars, glowing with burnished majesty in the still summer air, beckoned and I was soon setting up the telescope.
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Mollise, R. (2006). Summer. In: The Urban Astronomer’s Guide. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-217-9_7
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