Many things reminds you of your loved ones.

One night at the Astronomy campsite we organized with SAFIR (the astronomy club from my faculty) I wasn't very aware of my feelings of loneliness. Shameful to say, because I'd sound so vain, but I was quite most excited/nervous because of how I was managing the telescopes' area and if I was being enough clear when explaining scientific facts to the general public (yay popular science!).

It was a quite cloudy night and I was scared we were not going to get a clear view. What we would do if it didn't before sunrise and we missed our chance to see the Space Shuttle Discovery and the Hubble, flying, falling eternally at a high speed... but then, almost past midnight, it did!

One of the first stars I could see was the bright red Antares. As a city dweller I had always trouble in seeing the constellations at whole but this time I could see it clearly. I started explaining and pointing my telescope here and there while showing our students and their families many heavenly bodies.

In the quietness of that moonless night I glanced at Scorpius, that new constellation, and carved it in my memory. Indeed it looks like a scorpion... but there was something else... or was it someone? I sighed at the beautifulness of the sight and continued with my outdoor class ^^;;;

Back in Mexico City, I glanced to the night sky. And, while not as starry as it was in the campsite, I could see that shape. When I was seeing it I could feel something. a mirage. I was stargazing meanwhile the Moon was going toward Antares and then it hit me.

"¡Es Luna jugando con la Luna!" ("Is Luna playing with the Moon!")

For a quick Astronomy class click here.

My Windows XP installation got corrupt so I had to work in Ubuntu Studio. This piece is 100% made of free software: Starfield rendered with Stellarium, lineart scanned with XSane & inking and composite made with GIMP... I felt like a newbie again @__@

Lunamew is that adorable critter made by the even more adorable hatiimiga :3