Our house has a lovely, huge skylight over the kitchen, and normally that means sunlight streaming in during the day, and the thing rattling like a drum when the wind’s blowing hard. (Like it is tonight, again, unfortunately. We continue to be safe here, but the entire area is AGAIN in a critical “Extreme Fire Risk” situation for the nexr 48 hours.)
Tonight, the first Full Moon of 2025, the “Wolf Moon” with the Moon occulting (passing in front of) Mars earlier this evening, the extremely beautiful and bright Full Moon was streaming in through that skylight.
Going outside to look at the Moon through the telescope was contraindicated because of the wind (11 knots sustained, gusting to 21) and cold (53º) but could I roll it into the kitchen and look from here? I gave it about two seconds of thought, but then I remembered how dirty that skylight is, and the curved plastic is a long way from being even in the neighborhood of optically flat. So I just looked at it with ye olde Marke I eyeball and enjoyed it that way.
Keeping it simple…
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 