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Arc to Arcturus
At 8:37 p.m. on July 13, 1977, a lightning strike at the Buchanan South substation on New York’s Hudson River tripped two circuit breakers in Westchester County. At Buchanan South, which converted...
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Watching Comet Lulin
I love the night sky: the star-pictures of the constellations, the waxing and waning of the moon, the great wash of the galaxies. This week’s close passage of Comet Lulin, a beautiful and spectacular...
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The Comet-Watchers
Green-eyed, aloof, prowling heaven’s alleyways with unexpected grace you take your ease on Saturn’s stoop then roam again the darkness, an elegant, celestial stray hungry for attention. Prone beneath...
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The Sirius Season
If you needed a poster child for the dog days of summer, Jake would do just fine. Jake lives on a boat tied up to a dock that I frequent, and it’s clear that he hates July. He doesn’t like the heat,...
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Planet Clapton
He’d been around, of course. I was the one not paying attention. In those early years, as he moved from the increasingly commercialized Yardbirds to John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, I was being...
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