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Artificial Horizon

There are many mornings while I'm out mobile and playing radio in the pre dawn darkness just before the sun rises on the new day, the words of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin the first human in space come to mind as he experienced his first orbit of the earth......

"Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors!

I may be a whole lot closer to the ground while witness to all the colors of the rainbow being generated at the beginning of the new day, however I feel that same presence of mind on each and every morning, the sky immense and full of light that has drowned the stars.

If you haven't experienced the sight of a morning sky forming up in the pre-dawn darkness, I highly recommend you do.

Of course it goes without saying that my photo depicts an artificial horizon created by the various seeing and hearing devices mounted in my mobile, the real horizon located just beyond the great divide.