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The full moon is on the wane, which means we've got an overabundance of stars here in Suffolk.  The constellations all look kind of wrong in England, due to something scientific like us being on a different longitude than you guys, which means that the moon wanes in a slightly different direction.  Not obvious that I had to beg to get out of astronomy in college, is it?

Anyway, this is what we see through the telescope up here on a clear night:

Yup, that's Jupiter and it's four moons.  I was pretty proud of knowing what they're called (Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa) until my husband mentioned casually that there are 59 more.  

This all fits into books in a kind of lateral way.  Having spent all of my life as the world's worst dilletante, the sort of person who knows a teensy bit about most things but nothing much about anything important, I was thrilled to discover that I could write fiction - possibly the only place my scraps of useless knowledge come in handy. 

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