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RE: (meteorobs) color of night sky

While we're discussing the colour of the night sky...
Here's a poem I put into www.poetry.com <http://www.poetry.com>  in
March/April...
I'm not too impressed with their "web-bing" but I check out the site once in
a while...

"Why is the sky dark?" I've heard others ask,
And I ponder that thought while performing my task.
I search deeper in space and always in view
Are a few more stars, a million or two.
	Maybe it's not black, just dim or dull.	
Yes, surely it's because of  Sol.
Perhaps the night sky is indeed very bright
If there were no day to compare to night.
In fact, I'll bet that it would be
As bright as day, for you and me,
If we stepped from a cave and had never seen light,	
And gazed at the bright colours and glory of night !
Yes, I'm satisfied now. I've settled that thought.
I'll gaze smiling at the beautiful night sky above.
"Why is the sky dark?", they will blindly ask,
Yet I see only light, of 13 billion years past !

-Bruce Musson
-March 30,2000


Bruce 


	-----Original Message-----
	From:	  [SMTP:rendrag@earthlinkdot net]
	Sent:	Friday, October 20, 2000 4:01 AM
	To:	meteorobsjovian.com
	Subject:	(meteorobs) color of night sky

	I was very interested in Kim Youmans comments as an artist about the
color
	of the night sky.  Though I no longer paint I have some experience
in that
	field. You do not normally notice color unless it is very
spectacular such
	as a sunset for example. You normally even dream in black and white
unless
	color is the subject of the dream.  For years I saw the color of the
	shadows in the gullies on the mountains above my house as a neutral
dark
	gray until I had my cataracts removed and  now they appear a
distinct blue.
	After all they are illuminated by the blue sky. It is a rare person
that
	would ask the question of what is the color of the night sky because
it is
	so subtle.  The answer I am sure is in the eyes of the beholder and
the
	condition of their eyes.

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