SkyView

I went with a coworker to the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, an outdoor venue in Maryland Heights (St. Louis' little India), tonight and we saw some washed up eighties hair bands (specifically REO Speedwagon and Chicago) play. A woman out there was showing me the SkyView app on her phone. I assumed the one bright "star" in the sky by the moon was the planet Mars, but it was in fact Jupiter. The woman with the app used her smartphone to find the moon and from there her phone was able to tell her what the other things in the sky were around our locale. It outlined some consolations that we could have also seen if we were living in the nineteenth century without all the modern gunk in the night sky. Cool stuff. The REO part of REO Speedwagon stands for Ransom Eli Olds, an automotive industry trailblazer of yore.