I may or may not have mentioned this at some point, but my favorite thing in the whole widest world is to look up at the stars. I'm incredibly flaky and holistic about it. No need for telescopes, charts, ships, observatories, and whatever else. All I need is me, a blanket and the sky. In fact, my best date of all time was an evening out under the stars. My boyfriend, at the time, lived up on the top of a mountain in Los Gatos with his family. They had a ton of land with a clearing at the top of the mountain. Driving up through the woods was insanely scary, but I adored his family (they were totes the best) and we went out to that clearing with a blanket, some snacks and candles. It was tres romantic. Well, until my pants caught on fire, but that's got nothing to do with the sky.
The point is, I generally avoided things that made the sky seem more... clinical. The night sky is the universe's romance novel. You don't ruin romance novels by dissecting the character's motivations. Their motivation is love and/or nookie. Awesome. You figured it out. Give that man a gold star. As for the night sky... I guess telescopes are passable.
But what in the holy hell is this thing?
That thing is a sky chart. Its two pieces of plastic, connected at the center and when you spin it, it reveals the part of the sky that should be visible to you at any given time. I used it to find the Big Dipper. Ok. Ok. I found the Big Dipper and used it to set the chart. But that's not the point. I figured out how the chart works and while its not something I'd use every time I go a'gazing, it's nice to be able to find a particular constellation if I want to. That chart will cut serious time down on the sky search if I ever decide to go looking for a particular constellation.
Also, it didn't forever ruin the night sky for me... which is good to know. I may or may not have overreacted slightly to the possibility of using tools to stargaze. Like I said... you can't over-analyze romance. It ruins the beauty and simplicity of it.
You are nothing to me.
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