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Stars

Well for some time I was thinking of blogging but was procastinating it for a long time .. until today ... A clear september night sky .. a couple of books on Subramanyam Chandrashekhar still fresh in mind .. and here I am gazing out of my bedroom window. Its 2 am in the middle of a cool night. Could it get better .. A peep outside and I see the constellation 'Cygnus'. They call it the northern cross or swan flying southwards .. all I see is the cross - the 3 stars going across and then theres Deneb right above the middle one .. Vega is there to the north of cygnus 45 deg below the intersection of the cross. Albiero, the bottommost star of the cross quite faint .. and then Altair on the other side completing the summer triangle. I am at a loss of words - to see the summer triangle which I have been wishing to see all this time and now its there at a glance outside the window. kudos to Deneb-Vega-Altair ! Now I wish to make the most of this opportunity. so here goes ... To the n