![]() And there she had been all the springtimes of my life, circling around the pole with her five attendant stars, fairly begging for attention, and I had never seen her. I took the open book outside, walked around to the east side of the house, glanced once more at the diagram by the light that came through the east window of the kitchen, looked up toward the northeast and there, just above the plum tree blooming by the well, was Vega. “Vega, at that very hour in the month of May, would be rising in the northeastern sky. In this marvelous 1985 book Starlight Nights, Peltier writes ever-so-eloquently of his passion for stargazing and how, as a wide-eyed child one springtime evening long ago, he read about - and met - his very first star: Vega. ![]() It’s actually the inspirational and romantic autobiography of the late amateur astronomer and comet-discoverer extraordinaire Leslie Peltier. ![]() Of all the books I’ve read during my nearly six decades of stargazing - and there have been a lot - my favorite isn’t a technical tome like you might imagine. Santa Barbara Wedding Bliss: Your Complete Guide.
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