Occupation—Stargazer
ARE you a night-skyer? This will be the Question of the Month if all : those who heard Alan Bryce’s talk from 2YA the other Friday listened as zealously as I did. The stars in their courses were kind to Mr. Bryce and his listeners, since the talk was heard on what will probably be the only fine Friday in July, so that it was possible for the gymnastically inclined to have ears
glued to the radio and heads out of the window to identify the specimens named and described by the speaker. I found no difficulty in believing Mr. Bryce even when he presented one with facts which to, my novice ears seemed remarkable, such as that one small reddish star called Antares was forty million times as large as our sun. In fact the only statement I found incredible was Mr, Bryce’s — "as you will see from the chart in’ The Listener." By the end of the talk my current Listener was frayed at the edges, but I had still failed to follow the chart. However, none of these little setbacks can dim my resolution to be a star-gazer, first-class, especially in view of the fact that according to Mr. Bryce there are only 20 first-magni-tude stars altogether, and 12 of them can be viewed at once in the night sky in July. It would probably be asking too much to expect the powers-that-be to make it January. —
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 421, 18 July 1947, Page 10
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240Occupation—Stargazer New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 421, 18 July 1947, Page 10
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