Thoughts About the Stars and also Dogman
I'm just a malfunctioning alien-human hybrid publishing my thoughts and experiences
A few years ago I was standing out on the porch of the rooming house I had been recently housed at from my stint at a homeless shelter, and was smoking one of those small cigars (cigarillos) looking at the stars. Out of the corner of my eye, I swore I saw a large werewolf looking creature moving extremely quickly down the road. A bit of googling showed it appeared to be the cryptid called "dogman" and just so happen to be running down the street next to a building for First Nations. According to some sources, dogman has roots in Native American mythology. He looked about 7-8ft tall, hunched over, his upper-body far wider than his waist, long arms, was dark brown, and moved extremely quickly but gracefully. He made no notice of me and was about 70ft away from me. I secretly think that most people experience stuff like that but just keep quiet about it. If that's true, I wonder what cyptids mean. Why run down the street where I got a really good look at him but completely ignoring me. Perhaps cryptids just do their own thing, we do our own thing and occasionally cross paths. He was quite hurried, so I wonder where he was going and for what purpose.
I wasn't surprised or shocked by dogman in all and continued gazing at the stars. Since the light from the stars is extremely old, I wonder if enough time has elapsed for drastic changes to occur in the stars themselves. I recall that the star Betelgeuse was doing some interesting things a little while back and was curious about how old the light those changes we were seeing was. Apparently somewhere around 600 years old. Isn't it kind of strange to be seeing something that happened 600 years today, in present time? Stars are really a time capsule for us.
I did get into astronomy for a little bit with a Celestron reflector telescope for about $200. Seeing constellations was okay, seeing the moon alright, other planets were too distant with the slight exception of Mars, superclusters were pretty interesting, but damn galaxies are amazing to see! When I first laid eyes on Andromeda it blew me it away, you can very clearly see the shape and outline of it. All those stars, planets and matter in view, who knows what's going on in there. You can see Andromeda with a pair of decent binoculars too, you don't need an actual telescope, but it's not visible via the naked eye. I think I was able to look at the Sombrero galaxy at one point too, but the shape wasn't as well defined as Andromeda. If you get into astronomy, I recommend getting an offline star map run off a laptop with the red light/blue light filter running. That way you can get all sorts of information while stargazing.
I was also just getting into astrophotography too. Quite a technical hobby and can get extremely expensive. I started out with an old DSLR, a remote control and a tripod. The next step up would've been a DIY wooden barn door tracker to make longer exposures. And then after that an actual astrophotography rig. That's the kind of stuff that produces the pictures of nebulas of the like.
I also had the idea to get into radio astronomy and listen to space and planets. Planets apparently have their own "sound" to them. There's instructions out there to build them from satellite TV receivers, a laptop and some other parts for a few hundred dollars. My dream though, was to find one of those old TV dishes, the really big ones you'd see in backyards decades ago, weld up a trailer for it and tow it around. I'd imagine it would've been pretty strange to see it go by.