Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Hooray! Last night I looked out of my bedroom window and could see two stars in the sky. It's been months since it was last dark enough for the stars to be shinning this early in the evening.

The long summer evenings are great, but I do miss seeing the stars at night. Living, as I do, just outside Västerås there is very little light or air pollution so on a dark clear night the you can see the whole band of the Milky Way spread out across the sky. It's a big contrast to when I was living in Birmingham in the UK, where, with all the streetlights and cars, you were lucky to see a plane going over at night!

Still all the air pollution did lead to some pretty spectacular sunsets.