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So it's the middle of winter, getting kind of tired of winter maybe, but you get up before dawn, and now you're looking ahead.

And you can see a constellation that you did not see before.

Because the bear, which is visible to us here in the northern hemisphere, this far latitude, this far from the equator, the bear is visible to us all through the year at night.

But if you've got hills and trees, as we do here in the foothills, the bear is so close to the horizon in winter that you cannot see it.

The dibber.

just scrapes the horizon and it's behind the trees, it's behind the hills.