October 26, 2017
Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka, Saiph, and
Rigel. Sound like an ancient spell? Possible. Arabic-stemming-names
of constellation Orion bodies (top left). The latter star’s 279,000
times-as-bright as our sun’s luminosity has taken 863 light-years
to reach the human eye. And, as the Hunter travels the southern night
sky in perpetual unperturbed search of his prey, here, on terra
firma, the small hours of another day find an eastbound Eastern
Washington Gateway movement going head-to-head with a vaporous,
otherworldly apparition - Orion's Ghost - just west of Creston.
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