The Moon, Arcturus and Spica

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used the star to discover the wobble of the Earth’s axis known today as precession.

We now know Spica to be a bluewhite star about 261 light-years from Earth; in fact, the light we see from Spica is actually the combined light from two stars that orbit one another every four days. Together, they produce about 2,200 times the luminosity of the sun.

Also above the moon -- but more to the north -- you’ll spot a bright, yellow-orange star named Arcturus. This is the fourth brightest in all the heavens and is also the most brilliant star north of the celestial equator.

Located near Ursa Major and Ursa Minor -- the Great and Little Bears -- Arcturus marks the constellation Boötes, the Herdsman or Bear-Driver, though most of its stars are much too faint to see under the full moon’s light.

This star’s name derives from the ancient Greek word “arktouros,” meaning “Bear Guard.” Today we know it as a red giant star about 25 times larger and about 180 times more powerful than our sun; it’s an example of what our star will become some 5 billion years from now and lies about 222 trillion miles, or 37 light-years, away.

So how do we find these two stars when the full moon does not lie nearby? Well, that’s quite easy, because stargazers have long used the stars of the Big Dipper to point right to them.

On spring evenings, the Big Dipper stands on its handle in the northeastern sky not long after dark. To use it to locate these stars, simply follow the curve of the Dipper’s handle outward. We say, “follow the arc to Arcturus, then speed on to Spica.”

The Dipper, Arcturus and Spica will appear higher in the sky each evening

Sleeping with the Enemy

BY TRACY BECKERMAN

Whenever my husband goes out of town, I cheat. I figure what he doesn’t know won’t hurt him, and since there’s no way for him to find out that I cheated, why not have some fun while he’s out of town?

Do I feel guilty about this? Maybe a bit. But only because I know that my indiscretions may eventually catch up with me in the end. You see, I don’t just have one lover. I have two.

Ben AND Jerry.

It’s true: I’m supposed to be dairyfree. Wheat-free, too. It’s not that I’m allergic to wheat or dairy; it’s more of an intolerance. And by intolerance, I mean that when I eat anything with wheat or dairy in it...

I snore. Yes, I snore. And it’s loud. Like rocket-engine loud. Someone once measured it in decibels and it was some- where between a heavy-metal rock concert and a baby crying on a plane, both of which are annoying, but apparently not as annoying as an extremely loud wife snoring in the bed next to you.

Or so I’ve been told.

While my husband is out of town, I don’t care if I snore. I don’t wake myself up snoring, and I don’t keep anyone else awake either. Yeah, sometime the dog gets annoyed, but then again, sometimes he snores, too. When he snores, he gets thrown out of the room. My husband doesn’t do that with me because it would make me mad, and he knows which side his bread is buttered on.

Wheat-free bread, that is.

It was a tough decision but for the sake of my marriage, I chose domestic bliss over fresh bread. But when the cat is away, the mouse will play... and eat a lot of cheese, pizza and ice cream.

I thought I was in the clear, but the problem with wheat and dairy is they always come back to bite you in the butt, or at least make your butt bigger. After several months, it was becoming clear that I definitely had a little something going down on the side and I knew I was going to have to come clean.

But then I found a guy who makes really good gluten-free cakes and bread. And my favorite ice cream dudes, bless their hearts, started a line of dairy-free ice cream. Was it possible I could have my wheat-free chocolate lava cake and eat it, too?

I made the switch while my husband was away. And then when he came home, we went to sleep, and I assumed all went well.

But alas, I was wrong.

“You snored last night,” he said accusingly the next day. “Did you eat wheat or dairy yesterday?” for the next few months and will offer some beautiful sights throughout the summer months.

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“Well, you must have had something. What did you have?” he asked.

“The only thing I had that I didn’t make was a piece of wheat-free chocolate cake.”

“Maybe you are chocolate-intolerant now, too,” he said.

I glared at him. “So, you’re saying that now you think I should give up chocolate?

“Maybe. If it makes you snore.”

“Actually, I think you should give up something now, too,” I replied.

“What?” he wondered.

I shrugged. “Sleeping in the bedroom.”

Tracy Beckerman is the author of the Amazon Bestseller, “Barking at the Moon: A Story of Life, Love, and Kibble,” available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble online! You can visit her at www. tracybeckerman.com.

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