ブライアン・メイさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ブライアン・メイInstagram)「Tonight our very own Moon is ‘gibbous’ - meaning its phase - its illumination - is somewhere between half and full, as seen from Earth. My telescope - on my roof in town - is dusty these days, but it still works OK - and I was able to hold my iPhone 6 Plus up against the eyepiece to get this picture. It’s a little tricky, and what I’m NOT showing you is all the failures I took before I got lucky with this one ! 😳. I apologise for not wishing you all Happy Valentine’s Day. I hope you all had a good one. I was too depressed to go near social media. Anybody else know that feeling ? I had probably the most miserable V day of my whole life. Owing to a diary oversight I was alone all day, and really couldn’t face going out to eat on my own. So I cooked up what was in the fridge, forced it down, and drowned in E-mails all night. I do NOT want sympathy, so please don’t give me any. But now you know that this particular rock star does not have a magically perfect life. Maybe that’s a useful thing to know. Today, yesterday is over, and its dull pain is fading, so I thought I’d venture out. Hope you guys are all setting a better example than me ! Let’s share this gibbous Moon (it’s up there right now) and celebrate that we have a Moon to light up our darkness. I have long thought that the fact that we have a moon of the exact size that can cover the face of the Sun so perfectly may have something to do with the fact that we – Earthly life – exist. But that’s just my enthusiastic amateur astronomer’s view. I’ve never heard any other astronomer express that view. The mysteries and beauty of the night sky give me hope - hope that my own impossibilities are very small in comparison. The trouble is, believing it is one thing - but FEELING it is another altogether. Have a great weekend, folks. Bri —- PS Just so you know - cos I didn’t, for ages - ‘GIBBOUS’ is pronounced with a ‘g’ as in “give”’ - not as in “gin”. 🌔🌖」2月16日 6時49分