Takeaway

6 January 2014

'To see things thousands of miles away,
things hidden behind walls and within rooms,
things dangerous to come to, to draw closer,
to see and to be amazed and to feel that is the purpose of life.'

Slogan attributed to Life magazine, quoted in The Secret Lif of Walter Mitty

Showcase Cinema car park, Birstall

Crows and gulls have gathered by a discarded takeaway bag in the cinema car park. Two magpies watch from a nearby shrub.

By contrast the rooftops of Victorian Dewsbury seem to be the exclusive domain of feral pigeons.

Apollo 17 Landing Site

There's a waxing moon high above the wood this evening. The terminator - the line between dark and light - is at around 32 degrees east of lunar longtitude, passing close by the area that the Apollo 17 astronauts explored using the lunar rover.

Nearby, Mount Argaeus at the end of a ridge rises 8000 feet above Mare Serinitatus, the Sea of Serenity.