h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yes, at this hour; 00.20 Mars is - to me - clearer then ever before.

Unmistakable, in the South; a "little" rose, stable light. It is clearly bigger then any other star.

A beautiful night.

Seeing a member of my cosmic family in this Christal clear sky!!!!!!!!

I am going back to the street and sit somewhere, watch and enjoy.

These days I don't use my car in the evening anymore, because when I leave the house of a girlfriend late in the evening (she's on vacation) I can smell nature and see the sky and stars ánd a cristal clear shining Márs!
It lifts me up and I have had great pleasure in envolving other people in the city in this amazing performance.

I have written a story about it, but it is too much effort to translate it to make it a Journal. Sometimes it's really comic, but most of the times it shows my great pleasure in seeing Mars live, very different from all the other stars.
If you go out NOW, and look up to the South, you'll see Mars too.


But let me end by a quote from ancient Spanish music that I was copying this evening;

It is music from Juan de Aragües - Spain 1710 - 1793

"Ah de las esferas!"

And it has the refrain;

"Ah de las esferas,
ah del cielo dondo
el yelo se enciende.
yelan los ardores!
"Qué pasmo,
qué asombro!"
repiten las aves,
se admiran las flores".


Translated;

"Oh, the stars,
oh, the sky where
ice is born,
and burning and frozen!
"What a shock,
what an astonishment!"
the birds repeat
and the flowers amazedly."


It comes near to what I experience when I look at Mars in the condition that it has these days.