Showing posts with label stargazing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stargazing. Show all posts

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Outdoors in Autumn



October must be my favorite month, the weather is usually good, the sky puts on a beautiful show of clouds, and I no longer have to take three showers a day to feel clean.  It's the perfect time to get to the mountains, or go for a drive along the coast.  This fall I really want to go stargazing at the Tengu Highlands, I heard the night sky is really beautiful from there and you can see the milky way on a clear night.

十月は間違いなく 私の一番好きな月だ。 天気もいいし、雲はすごくきれいな色と形で、そんなに暑くないから気持ちいい。登山や海岸沿いのドライブにばっちり。今年の秋は天狗高原に行って綺麗な夜空を見に行きたいと思っている。天狗高原からみる景色はとても綺麗で、銀河も見えると聞いたから、今からいける日をとても楽しみにしている。

Sunday, February 12, 2012

The sky over Hidaka Village



この前の月食を仁淀川に見に行った時から、前より天文に興味を持った。大学で選択科目では天文学の授業を受けたが、実は今の方がよく星を見ている。大体晴れていたら夜に散歩する時上を向いて歩く。涙は零れるかもしれないけど、理由は空気がひやいし日高村の上の空が本間にきれいに見えるからだ。これは絶対に大きな町に住みたくない理由の一つ。町の明かりのせいで星が見えなくなる。日高村ではその問題があまりないので、月食も流星群を二つも見たし、星座を天文学のラボの時からまた思い出してできるだけ多く見つける目標にして、練習している。

Since the time I went to see the lunar eclipse at the Niyodo river a few months ago I've really become more interested in astronomy.  In college I took an elective course in astronomy, but I'm actually looking at the stars more now than I was then.  If the skies are clear when I go for walks at night I pretty much always walk looking up, and if I spill any tears they're for nothing but the cold and the beauty that I see.  This is one of the reasons I definitely don't want to live in a big city where the city lights prevent you from seeing the stars.  In Hidaka that isn't a problem, as I've seen the eclipse, two meteor showers, and I've been recalling the constellations I learned in Astronomy Lab and practicing spotting those in the sky.