First Day Of The Year

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The first day of the year sounds like an exciting time, but business doesn't really allow it to be, does it? So many places are closed, and if you don't drive, then you're limited to where you can go.

But you still want it to be an exciting, time, so you have to make the best of it.

So I went out for a quick walk, re-dyed the ends of my hair, and went outside to look at the night sky when it was dark. Thankfully there were no clouds. It's so annoying when clouds prevent me from stargazing.


The camera my Dad gave me is over 10 years old, but allows me to take actually decent pictures of the moon with most of the details. I can't find a way to get it to take pictures of the stars, though, but if I zoom in enough at the big bright star that is actually Jupiter, I can get something that I'm not sure is actually a blurred image of how it looks or if that's just how the light is.

Maybe I need to get some new binoculars specifially for looking at stars. Then I can see the fainter constellations properly. I want to see all the Zodiac signs, which means I might have to get up in the middle of the night for some of the ones that are only really visible in this part of the world during summer when the nights are shorter. 

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