10/25 Markus had pointed his iPhone upward and snapped a picture of the clear night sky near Berlin. A picture that looked as if a bucket of stars had been emptied out over it. I pored over the photo for an hour or more trying to identify a few, with some success: Cassiopeia, Mirfak, Deneb, Andromeda. It was actually the first time I’ve ever seen the Andromeda nebula, because I had never known what to look for.