The moon set at half past nine, and left the heavens aglow. Imagine the
milky way, without its milky appearance, all the haze gone, the stars
in it in crowds. The nebulous light dissolves in brilliant worlds, the
Southern Cross at one end,
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just above the Southern horizon, Orion at the other end in the zenith,
and several of the bright constellations full in view.[2]