We may as well be climbing the tower of Babel to shoot arrows at the sky.
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Through our windows we could see people at their windows, looking up at the sky.
Max was outside on the sidewalk, catching autumn leaves, staring up at the sky with hands outstretched.
Their perfectly scrubbed decks bristle with security guards, while hot tubs bubble and helipads wink at the sky.
Sorensen lay on his back staring at the sky for several seconds afterwards.
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Newmark said people should not peer up at the sky to view the solar event without special viewing equipment.
Sometimes Diana came out on the back porch and lit a cigarette, standing there holding her elbow, the hand with the cigarette pointing at the sky.
Kendall, copies of the papers tucked under his arm, looked up at the sky to watch the leaves, red and gold, spinning down toward the earth.
The painters lost interest, but the voices went on and could still be heard when one or other of them left the van to look at the sky.
The newspaper features a photo of retired basketball player Yao Ming, who will attend the two sessions next week, frowning at the sky outside his hotel in Beijing.
Combine a state-of-the-art telescope with a 268-megapixel camera, point it at the sky, add in a bit of calculation and you could end up with a gorgeous photo of the Carina Nebula.
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In the early 1970s, while others were telling people th at the sky was falling, we were saying that investing in the debt of American business was the best investment, not the worst.
This Main Street hotel, a hot spot for Sundance scenesters, is also home to two just-opened restaurants and the CW3PR RE:treat at The Sky Lodge, a lounge for bold-faced names and lucky non-celebrities.
"I was smoking outside the door when I looked up at the sky and suddenly the sky lit up with a bright light and something that looked like the sun fell somewhere to the south of Yekaterinburg, " wrote Sergei Bobunets, quoted by AFP news agency.
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The observatory, which is named after the physicist who discovered the showers caused by cosmic rays, has 1, 600 detectors on the ground to record the arrival of such cascades and 24 telescopes pointing at the sky to locate the flashes of light produced by the collisions that create them.
Find this orientation by looking through the crystal at the sky at a time when you can see the sun, mark the sun's direction on the crystal, and your mark will always point towards the sun when you match the beams from even a tiny patch of blue in an otherwise overcast sky.
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Adam Block, program coordinator at the Mount Lemmon Sky Center at the University of Arizona, snapped his first Pan-STARRS picture March 10.
He took the competitive, empirical drive with which Florentine painters had been looking at the world and used it to look at the night sky.
Tholen told CNN there was about a half-hour between when the asteroid got high enough in the sky for the telescope to point at it and before the sky became too light to observe it.
Disconcerted, B returned to the street and gazed at the empty sky.
Finally, when he reached the top of a long high hill, he saw the fire, huge and snapping at the black sky.
The park attracts a lot of foot traffic, and the telescopes draw in curious passers-by to stop for a few moments to stare up at the night sky.
Lying on the dirt floor of my room looking up at the night sky, I would pray, "Please let me have a pretty doll, " whenever I spotted a shooting star.
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The next morning, Steve, in my hotel room, I threw open the draperies, and it was so grey and dark looking out at the Beijing sky, I thought it was raining.
TDS-1 payloads include instruments to track ships and monitor the sea surface for freak waves, and even a self-destruct "sail" that will pull the spacecraft out of the sky at the end of its mission.
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