What I Saw in the Night Sky

Friday night I couldn't sleep, so at about 12:45am I went outside, laid my back on the porch, and looked into the dark Kansas night sky.

Here's what I saw in the span of 40 minutes:

• The milky way

• Thousands of stars--some bright, most dim, all without binoculars.

• The big dipper

• A dwarf star--flashing different shades of white.

• 2 shooting stars

• A satellite (unlike airplanes, satellites orbit very high. It looks like a star moving very swift)

• and a partridge in a pear tree (not really)
  

The night sky? It's pretty glorious.