Arduino thermometer

What with the glorious sunny weather, I wondered how hot my flat actually gets. It's certainly felt far too warm recently.

Now, the sensible way to find out is to go and buy a thermometer. But Robert Days are closed for the evening. So instead I dug out an Arduino kit I was given for my birthday (Elegoo's "The Most Complete Starter Kit for the Mega 2560") and set to work...



The answer: 27°C!

( Code! )

The dragon that ate the moon (partial lunar eclipse)

-"What will be, if I ate the moon from the sky?"-the young dragon asked.-"It looks so delightful!"
Dragon that ate the moon, AlviaAlcedo on deviantArt

I'm sure there's ancient mythology explaining eclipses as dragons eating the moon...



( Lunar eclipse photos )

There was another faint point near the moon tonight - only the brightest stars and objects are visible from my flat thanks to a street lamp outside. Fortunately Home Planet has an artificial horizon!



Again decoding the symbols, ♃ is Jupiter off to the side and ♇ is Pluto (which is far too faint to be visible), so it must be ♄ which is the symbol for Saturn.