text | @silent | Oct 21

[callada]

Hey everyone,

Have a look at the images attached to this post. These were taken of the same location in the sky at the same time of day. August 1, September 7, October 4 in that order. The fourth picture is the same as the third, other than my own addition to it to highlight some of the more obvious changes.

I haven't finished going through all of the images yet but the stars are going out. Sometimes one a week, sometimes one a night. Averages out to something like ten to twelve per month from what I can see. Maybe more, since the tablet camera doesn't pick up every star all that well, and the trees get in the way.

For now, I have enough of a star chart to navigate by, so long as those stars don't go dark. I'll let you all know if Doctor Ingram or I see a change in the rate of losses.

If anyone can control cloud layers and wants to give me a clear sky every now and then, I'd appreciate it.

((Here's a cool animated version! Thanks, Xy!))

Comments

[sunborne]

[ it takes daylight a few seconds to find a fitting and nice word to describe ms. robin. he knows she means well - after all, she wants to survive this too - but, like rosinante said, she can be- ]

Cryptic.

Do you think she'll give us something if we show enough progress on our end about this? Tic for tac? Something like that? She's been around the longest so she must have noticed this some time ago, due to where she is.

[callada]

I imagine she's already reading this. Not much else to do up there.

But sure. I'll ask.

[sunborne]

Thanks. If anything happens, let me know? I'll poke around myself and see if I can turn anything up.

[ and daylight wants to end it there, wanting to be professional and serious like the others for once in his life, but- ]

Are you okay? After everything?

[callada]

I will. Thanks. I'll send the photos to you also with that app Dr. Ingram made recently. Give it an hour or so.

And yeah. I'm fine. You all right?

[sunborne]

Thanks. Fingers and stars crossed that we get something out of this.

[ a few seconds pass before he sends his next message: ]

Feeling awful. It's like something crawled out of my helm and then went back in and then decided, 'Nope! I want out!' and left noisily as possible.

Does that make sense? I feel like it does after what happened.

[callada]

Yeah. Yeah, it does. Rest up, all right? Let me know if you need anything.

[sunborne]

You too. I think everyone deserves a rest up and then some after all of this happened.

Take care now. I'll hit you up privately if anything comes up.