Pond at the Fernbank Science Center
It’s a fairly nice small pond to sit beside for a little while. In this case after viewing the show at the Planetarium today which was on the stars of summer in our hemisphere (difficult to follow via just a sometimes too quickly moving pointer) with some information also on the other planets of our solar system and what exploratory devices have learned about them.
It was our first visit to the Planetarium and we were the only individuals there except for one other woman.
The constellation that H.o.p. noticed was, of course, Draco. If I remember, they skipped over it in the show, but H.o.p. saw the dragon and excitedly pointed it out and wanted to know what it was. We’ve talked about Draco numerous times before. We talked about Draco again and a bit on the myths concerning it.
And I realized that in a dream I had yesterday I was walking the Summer Zodiac. It hadn’t occurred to me at the time. Only realized it as I was staring up at the night sky superimposed upon the planetarium’s vault, which is pretty large, pretty impressive. We’ve been to the Fernbank Science Center a number of times, and have made a few visits to the observatory, and when you have never been to a planetarium, what can I say that walking into it, the entrance on the floor beneath the main one, one feels as though one has stumbled into a secret cavern, a veritable python’s den.
I ask H.o.p. what he learned at the Planetarium today. “About stars and planets,” he replies.
Uh, well…yeah, I guess that’s the long and short of it.
Instead of the visit to the Planetarium inspiring him to talk about the planets and stars, he’s been instead rattling on about what he knows about Greek and Roman mythology, asking questions in particular about the legends of such heroes as Hercules and Jason.
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