Special Chapter The Distance from Thoughts to the Starry Sky (Part 1)
"Here we are!"
As midnight falls, the vast fairy mountain is ethereal and peaceful under the moonlight,
On a side peak on the edge of the mountain range, the young man who was the first to reach the top of the mountain waved the flashlight in his hand and shouted to his companions behind him,
There was a sense of excitement and excitement in his voice as if he were on an adventure.
"Krim! Rize! This way, this way!"
After hearing his voice, two more figures quickly followed.
"Is this right here..."
Holding a lantern, Rize looked at the small hilltop in front of him which was very flat and had a wide view. Krim was amazed at the scenery here. He looked at the young man who brought them here and said in surprise:
"It's a shame you could find a place like this."
Opposite to the direction coming up, there are cliffs on the other side of the top of the mountain, and below is the lake, which is only a narrow area of more than 100 square meters.
At a height of hundreds of meters, it adds a sense of danger and isolation.
The moonlight is bright, the mountains and forests are quiet, and the lake below is shimmering in the night. The most rare thing is that there is no obstruction around, and the narrow top of the mountain seems to be the only piece of land.
This unparalleled sense of broadened horizons brings indescribable scenery at this moonlit night.
With the height of the mountain top, the starry sky is magnificent!
"Not bad right."
When he heard what he said, Fangran gave a thumbs up and smiled proudly.
As he lives longer and longer in Midnight, there are fewer and fewer parts that he needs to enlarge every day, and sometimes he doesn't even need to jump into the medicine pool anymore.
This gave Fangran a lot of free time before he went to feed those exotic animals as usual every night.
You can take Lize and Krim along for a 'camping adventure' in the huge fairy mountain.
"Um...how is this thing installed? Li Ze, do you know?"
"I'm not too sure either."
"Then leave it to me. I should probably know how to do it."
On the top of the mountain overlooking the lake, on a small "high-altitude island" with three cliffs,
Use the tree stumps picked up from Tiangong's backyard the day before yesterday, press them into the soil as stools, and light a small bonfire in the middle. This environment is perfect without any flaws.
After finishing these things, Fang Ran and the other three finally assembled the astronomical telescope and equatorial mount that they planned to use to watch the stars tonight.
In the space created by the immortals, there are not only countless magnificent scenery where there are no weeds or mosquitoes, but
There is also the sea of stars that shocks the mind when looking up at night.
"Speaking of which, Fangran, why do you carry such a thing with you?"
Watching Krim assemble this five-digit telescope, Li Ze looked at Fangran strangely and asked, in the middle of the night isolated from the world,
This was not the first time that he had seen Fangran take out some gadgets that a normal person would never carry around with him.
Then after asking this question, he received a righteous answer from Fang Ran.
"I'm actually an astronomy enthusiast."
A person who doesn’t even know how to assemble a telescope calls himself an astronomy enthusiast.
However, in Fangran's own opinion, whether he can assemble it and whether he likes it or not are two different things. He has no problem saying so.
Of course, the fact is that while he was fishing under the nose of his mentor this afternoon, he suddenly thought of finding a mountain top to go stargazing tonight.
Then he used the Chuang card to create a telescope.
With the development of modern life, living in big cities, I have forgotten the stars in the sky that I saw when I looked up in the village when I was a child. But as I grow up,
After meeting again by chance, I still felt a certain emotion in my heart.
The curiosity about the vast starry sky may be the reason why people like to look above their heads...
Fairy mountains at night, cliffs and cliffs,
It is probably the best place in the world to look up at the stars. There is no light pollution or haze, and the mountain top is closer to the sky.
It was the first time that Fangran saw the Milky Way so clearly.
In the sea of stars all over the sky, there is a huge light and shadow like a bright white silk scarf, deep and far away, like a beautiful abyss hanging in the sky.
It makes people feel small and at the same time, they can't help but breathe softly...
I was surprised that the night sky above my head far away from the city looked like this. In front of the telescope that Krim helped adjust,
Fangran used naked eye observation for the first time as a common sense, and the moment he realized that it was not a 'moon', but a moon, he became familiar with the existence.
I don’t know why this moment feels so strange and indescribable.
"This is the surface of the moon...there are really a lot of craters!"
Unable to explain the strange feeling in his heart, Fangran could only sigh in the most straightforward way, then looked at Krim expectantly and asked:
"Can I see anything else? Can I see Mars?"
Seeing his excited look, Krim nodded with a smile and adjusted the position of the telescope for him.
"Of course, according to the magnification of your telescope, Jupiter's stripes, Jupiter's moons and Saturn's rings can also be seen, but Mercury and Venus cannot be seen at this time."
"I heard it's only at dawn and dusk?"
Although he didn't know much about it, he knew some basic knowledge about celestial bodies. Rize asked, and received a positive reply from Krim, who nodded.
"Hey...is this Saturn? It's too small. Can't it be bigger?"
"Unfortunately, this level of ordinary observation methods is already the limit."
Unlike the lunar surface where craters can be clearly seen, Saturn and Jupiter in the telescope are just small balls slightly larger than light spots, blurry like textures with barely some details.
As for the nebula, it is a "small patch" that glows slightly in the dark night. You can't find it unless you look carefully.
But even so, at the top of the mountain like an isolated island in the sky at midnight,
Fang Ran was also very excited, like a child observing the stars for the first time because his family bought a telescope.
"Phew - I always feel that it's very different to see it with my own eyes..."
After exhaling a long breath, Fangran had been gathering around the telescope for more than half an hour. Fangran, who had enjoyed watching it, sat back on the wooden post, looked up at the beautiful Milky Way above his head and sighed,
Then he looked at Krim who was sitting next to him and said curiously:
"Krim, do you know much about this?"
Looking at the stars is surprisingly not that simple. When you first get started, there is a high probability that the moon is hanging in the sky, and you have no way of finding it in the telescope.
If Krim hadn't been surprisingly familiar with operating telescopes,
Their event tonight will most likely be changed to a barbecue...
"It's okay. When I was studying at Harvard, I met a friend who was interested in this, and I learned a little bit about it."
Although he had a thermostatic device and was not afraid of the cold, Krim still stretched out his hands to feel the warmth of the bonfire in front of him, and his pale and gentle face was illuminated by the warm color.
"Fangran, are you interested in astronomy?"
"If you are interested, of course you are very interested..."
Fingertips lightly scratched his cheek. Fangran answered so guiltily. He was embarrassed to say that he often looked at the stars at night when he was a child.
Then I hope to give myself some mysterious powers and become a superhero or something...
But after seeing the stars with my own eyes just now, my curiosity and yearning for the stars and the sea were really aroused in my heart.
Thinking that the figure of a super genius is in front of me, while resting on the bluestone steps at the back door of the hall, he can always tell me some eye-opening knowledge.
Fangran looked at Krim, his eyes filled with curiosity and asked a question:
"With the current level of technology, how long will it take for us to explore the universe?"
