#Star-Gazing

Star-gazing is described as the romantic hobby of gazing at distant stars, while in reality it’s the ascetic ordeal of enduring cold and bugs on one’s own balcony. Guided by a constellation app in search of the “galactic core,” one often finds that the glare of city lights is a deeper mystery than any nebula. More time is spent cleaning and calibrating the telescope than actually peering through it, a paradoxical truth awaiting aspiring astronomers. The grand cosmic revelations you seek often turn out to be a sobering confirmation of your tolerance for frostbite.