re: #53 coldwarrior

been there!
i had my 16” Meade refractor in the yard and was looking at a receding venus and got my eye fried by an incoming jet into PITT. low angle stuff happens.

When I live in Iran we’d sleep on the roofs in summer. Our house was in line with the base leg for Mehribad airport. The landing lights would just hang there, then shoot off to the left when the plane turn on to final.