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To: Rambi who wrote (43886)	12/23/1999 12:23:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 71178

I went out at sixish last night just as dusk was setting in because I wanted to 1) see if I could acquire Ras Alhague (Alpha Ophiuchi, one of the shining stars of the summer sky) this late in the year before it disappears into dusk, and 2) watch the Moon rise. This involved walking up the block to a place where there were useable gaps in the trees and houses cluttering my my my horizon. I looked east and saw a cloud that didn't look right. Too dark, too low. And it was moving with almost no wind. I figured that it was a big, close fire. Well, I'm not above changing my itinerary, so it took me about a mile to go to where ten fire trucks and police units had showed up in the meantime (with much fanfare). By the sheer volume of smoke I expected to find a whole house ruined. Do you know what it was?! An El Camino. A single stinking El Camino with the passenger compartment looking all crispy. The hood was popped, but the engine looked ok from my poor vantage behind the informal police line. I deadpanned to some older gents that it must have been the experimental "external combustion" model, then headed back home. And say the moon come over the Eastern range like a big brand new penny. Ras Alhague was easy. Ras Algethi next door was not visible anymore. I hope to see Ras Alhague with binos in the dusk of 0101000.