Post by Grubb.
The Northern Light Planetarium on the campus of UiT Arctic University of Norway sits on a ridge above Tromsø. Since it wasn’t raining, we decided to walk up to the planetarium and take in a show they have about those otherworldly lights. It was a beautiful trek, like taking a walk in the hills above Tiburon only with more affordable houses, gabled wooden structures that, if there weren’t seagoing vessels in the background, would make you think you were in a woodsy Rocky Mountain town not yet made into a resort.
The planetarium, poking out of the trees like a cooling tower to a nuclear reactor, was open, but the Northern Lights presentation, its unique reason for being, was closed for three days while “they did maintenance.” One wonders what this entailed other than cleaning a few lenses and switching out some globes. Maybe a mirror was cracked and they had seven days, as opposed to years, of bad luck that shut operations down? Or, more likely, the license for their Adobe After Effects software expired and they had to renew. At any rate, it was Lights Out for us and we took a bus back into town.
Well, all those walks, especially up and down those hills (well maybe just up) is good for you.