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Question: How do you know when you have done too much astronomy?

Answer: When you start dreaming about it!

I have had the same dream for 3 nights running about a new nebula (that doesn't really exist). It's called the parallel nebula, and consists of 3 approximately horizontal lines of lengths 4, 5 and 4 stars respectively, enveolped in an elliptical blue nebula. It is particularly prominent in the winter months, lying low in the west after sunset and steadily rising throuhg the night, and is visible to the naked eye with averted vision, magnitude 2.0!

It looks like this:
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Am i going crazy?

Alex

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Yep, you're going crazy if your nebula is "lying low in the west after sunset and steadily rising throuhg the night".

From Maple Valley, things in the West drop below the horizon, while things in the east "steadily rise through the night."

A few weeks of cloudy weather makes me dream of crazy things too, Alex. Comes with the territory.