It's here: autumn. Less hours of daylight, better view of stars and galaxies and planets and satellites. I just downloaded Stellarium, an open-source planetary on my computer and holy shit is it amazing! Looking outside the window and seeing Jupiter, then checking the screen to find out is over 600 million kilometres away. Seeing the bright star Beetlegeuse below it several hundred lightyears away and that the light from it reaching Earth and my corneas is actually, literally, looking back in time. This is an excellent investment of my limited hard drive space, especially now that winter is arriving. Yay, several months to stargaze in ever-increasing amount of time!!
stellarium.org
