Fern Orbit https://maple-note.103-118-211-59.nip.io/ 2026-10-26T11:32:00Z Flora Sandoval A short guide to observinghttps://maple-note.103-118-211-59.nip.io/writing/2026/10/a-short-guide-to-observing/2026-10-26T11:32:00ZDark adaptation takes twenty minutes and one bright screen to ruin. I wrote most of this on a calm Tuesday morning. What I learned from star hoppinghttps://maple-note.103-118-211-59.nip.io/writing/2026/08/what-i-learned-from-star-hopping/2026-08-30T00:37:00ZThe moon is not an obstacle; it is the easiest target there is. Clouds rolled in an hour after sunset, as they so often do. Revisiting double starshttps://maple-note.103-118-211-59.nip.io/writing/2026/06/revisiting-double-stars/2026-06-02T02:09:00ZSketching at the eyepiece makes you actually look. Binoculars show more of the sky than most people expect. Observing nebulae in Julyhttps://maple-note.103-118-211-59.nip.io/writing/2026/04/observing-nebulae-in-july/2026-04-29T02:47:00ZI keep coming back to clear nights, largely because it rewards time. Chasing star clustershttps://maple-note.103-118-211-59.nip.io/writing/2025/12/chasing-star-clusters/2025-12-20T06:14:00ZA good star chart beats any app when your hands are cold. A slower way to think about nebulaehttps://maple-note.103-118-211-59.nip.io/writing/2025/09/a-slower-way-to-think-about-nebulae/2025-09-20T03:01:00ZNone of this is new, and that is partly why it works. A dark night for star chartshttps://maple-note.103-118-211-59.nip.io/writing/2025/05/a-dark-night-for-star-charts/2025-05-13T15:38:00ZSketching at the eyepiece makes you actually look. Letters from the back gardenhttps://maple-note.103-118-211-59.nip.io/writing/2025/04/letters-from-the-back-garden/2025-03-31T16:50:00ZLooking back, the patient approach was the right call. A good star chart beats any app when your hands are cold. The autumn skyhttps://maple-note.103-118-211-59.nip.io/writing/2024/12/the-autumn-sky/2024-12-16T10:31:00ZYou can get unexpectedly far with a star chart and some time. Sketching at the eyepiece makes you actually look. Why planets still mattershttps://maple-note.103-118-211-59.nip.io/writing/2024/12/why-planets-still-matters/2024-12-05T13:09:00ZDark adaptation takes twenty minutes and one bright screen to ruin. It took me nine attempts to see the pattern.