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Re: SpaceX Starlink launch: photo celestial
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2020 Jan 9, 12:12 -0800
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2020 Jan 9, 12:12 -0800
David Pike, in your first reply you wrote:
" I believe I can see Castor and Pollux just above the sickle of the cloud?"
This made me laugh, by the way. Sickle... of cloud? Hey, sure enough! There is a sickle in the clouds. See, the first astronomical pattern that I spotted when I looked at this photo was the Sickle in Leo, near the horizon. But yes indeed, there's a nice, coincidental echo of the astronomical Sickle in the clouds over the launch site.
Frank Reed
