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Sometimes on a summer’s evening. my wife, Julia and I play the satellite numbers game. We see how many shuttles, Intelsats and Vostoks we can count overhead. They show as points of light moving among the stars in the dusk about one hour after sunset. Not much brighter than the average star, they are not red or green, and do not flash like an aircraft. On some evenings we have counted half a dozen of these objects orbiting high above the earth’s atmosphere. They are shining in the last rays of the sun. which sets an hour later up there.
Thanks to Rappahannock’s skies, I was able to take quite good pictures of comet Halley when it returned to the sun in 1986. So far as I know, mine were the only 35mm color photographs taken from the mid-Atlantic states. I held the reflex camera steady for 20 seconds at f/1.7.
Later, when the slides were processed, one showed the tail of the comet at its longest extent. The ice in the solid head of the comet had melted and vaporized, and the gases were blown out in a long trail behind. The same slide showed star
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