The Stars In The Sky.

WOW!!  Have you ever looked up at dark into the night sky?  It is pretty amazing isn't it.  I really enjoy just gazing at them and thinking...about anything or nothing at all.  It gives me a chance to breathe.  What I have noticed lately is a really bright star in the East.  Well at least East from me.  I want to find a star chart and learn where the main navigational stars are. 

I leave for work before the sun is up and lately I have had some great views of the stars then.  My favorite mornings are when the sky is clear and the moon is full or even almost full.  The moon puts out so much light that it brightens my whole front yard and makes it easier to walk to the car.  To see the moon and the stars in the early hours sometimes makes it a great start to my day.  The only thing is, I don't want to go, instead I want to look at the stars.

You would think that a guy like me who rarely gets lost would know more about the stars.  Well, Orion's Belt is usually the only one I can point out easily.  I used to be able to see the dragon, I am not sure what the real name of that constellation is.  I wonder what it would be like to be on the ocean at night with all the stars in full view.

The place my wife and I used to live was too crowded with city lights to see much, but where we are now is a lot better.  They say that we live in a good area for viewing stars at night in the winter months.  Really though it may be to cold.   Lately here it has been getting cooler and I even had to scrap my window's before work!!  I can withstand most of the coolness right now in early October.

When I was in scouts we had an outing in the middle of February every year.  It was very cold to tent camp then.  Often we would rent an Army supply tent and fill it with hay or straw and sort of huddle our sleeping bags near each other.  Not too close though, we left plenty of room for our packs and walking.  I think the coldest February outing we had was 5 below and it was rough on most of us.  My brother was actually involved in scouts then and he ended up with frostbite on his toes!!  We didn't know it happened until he started walking on the sides of his feet.  I think after that is when he may have quit.

SO, do you like the stars?  Do you have any favorites?  What about constellation?
Here is a cool website that I just found that has some neat things to check out.  You can even get a free sky map.

Remember the most important thing:  God created the stars in the very beginning.  Genesis 1:14-19   ¹⁴ And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, ¹⁵ and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. ¹⁶ God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. ¹⁷ God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, ¹⁸ to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹ And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.

Thank you God for all the stars!