Weekly snapshot #7

I saw some impressive stars and also some auroras on Tuesday night, even from the center of town here in McMurdo, where there is always a lot of ambient light (there are streetlights here, for pete's sake!). So that was exciting and made it definitely feel like winter is here. Though we still have some daylight. Here's today at noon:

I'm glad the mountains on the other side of the bay are doing the glowing pink thing they've been doing most of the time lately and it's showing in this pic. It's beautiful. And as the sun is barely getting over the horizon even at midday now, the temps are dropping a bit accordingly. (But still nothing like Pole, where it's currently -82F.) It's no fun out when the wind is whipping. I might have to bring out my full face mask soon!