Mixed news...
May. 1st, 2005 06:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpAs I emerged from unconsciousness this morning, I felt more than saw or heard the cat sitting on the bed a few inches from my face, and then I became aware of a fairly insistent purring, which I thought was unusual for Baby as it was quite loud and annoying, eventually crystallizing into the ringing of my alarm clock, which I had set for 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, to wake me from my nap. Yesterday, I had snoozed my way through the alarm, finally getting up around 5 pm, effectively leaving the alarm set for the next time 4 o'clock rolled around, which was about two hours ago. Get the picture?
What's curious is that I actually came to at 4:20 am, and as I reached over to turn off the alarm and wondered aloud as to what congenital idiot would have set the misbegotten thing for 4 o'clock, it occurred to me that I was in perfect position, timewise, to see if conditions were right to observe the ISS pass at - as it turns out - about 10 after 5. I got up, pulled on some clothes and went out the back door onto the porch for a preliminary look.
The view was overcast toward the north and northeast, but I was looking in the wrong direction for the pass. Too lazy to walk around to the other side of the house, I leaned out over the railing and craned my neck to look up and saw a couple of stars, which suggested some holes in the overcast. Moreover, there was no snow falling, which is good news.
By the time I had gotten properly dressed - it's cold despite the absence of snow - and confirmed the time for the pass (where, it turns out, there's only one visible pass today, not two), it was getting well-nigh close to the start of the pass. I went outside and looked up to see moon struggling to get through the clouds to the southeast, and bad news covering the rest of the sky: it was pretty solid overcast everywhere else.
This provides an excellent opportunity to go back and try to catch a few more winks.
Cheers...
What's curious is that I actually came to at 4:20 am, and as I reached over to turn off the alarm and wondered aloud as to what congenital idiot would have set the misbegotten thing for 4 o'clock, it occurred to me that I was in perfect position, timewise, to see if conditions were right to observe the ISS pass at - as it turns out - about 10 after 5. I got up, pulled on some clothes and went out the back door onto the porch for a preliminary look.
The view was overcast toward the north and northeast, but I was looking in the wrong direction for the pass. Too lazy to walk around to the other side of the house, I leaned out over the railing and craned my neck to look up and saw a couple of stars, which suggested some holes in the overcast. Moreover, there was no snow falling, which is good news.
By the time I had gotten properly dressed - it's cold despite the absence of snow - and confirmed the time for the pass (where, it turns out, there's only one visible pass today, not two), it was getting well-nigh close to the start of the pass. I went outside and looked up to see moon struggling to get through the clouds to the southeast, and bad news covering the rest of the sky: it was pretty solid overcast everywhere else.
This provides an excellent opportunity to go back and try to catch a few more winks.
Cheers...
