Beautiful photo. My dad, one of twelve children in a poor agricultural share-cropper family, didn’t have an opportunity to go to college. He grew up during the depression, and times were tough. When his dad died of cancer, he had to stay on the farm and support his mother and family. However, in later years he was fascinated with astronomy. He had a telescope mount in the back yard, and our rural Indiana home had some really dark skies on those nights where we weren’t socked in with clouds. All of his sons went on to study science in college, and his grandson just completed a PhD. in geochemistry from Yale.
Denny, I’m curious as what your connection is with astronomy? Are you a professional astonomer who also dabbles with horses? Or are you a horse person who dabbles with astronomy? For a number of years I worked for Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona. I was, for the most part, a liaison officer for the sister observatory in Chile, S.A., but while I haven’t had any education in astonomy, when I see the photographs that you daily present, I can’t but stand in awe at the emensity and beauty of it all.
Neither. His connection to astronomy is involuntary. You see, Denny is so tall that his head is always above the clouds…
Neither. The astronomy is mostly just the “immensity and beauty” bit. I blame the horses on the wife.