Off Topic: Stargazing on Second Avenue Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Off Topic: Stargazing on Second Avenue "You should be in SCHOOLS." Feature by Christian Donlan Features Editor Updated on 1 Mar 2022 At the start of every year I promise myself that this spring I will head out onto the South Downs late one evening and actually see the Milky Way. Light pollution: there are still certain spots on the Downs where it's actually dark enough to see the galaxy that we are a part of. To look up and look through the lurid gassy wilds of our home. Maybe with a Thermos of something because it's probably quite chilly. I have never done this. Last year I was particularly eager to, having read Gary Filde's thrilling memoir An Astronomer's Tale, charting his life from a bricklayer to a navigator of the stars. But still: I don't drive. The buses stop. I have duties at home that involve getting a daughter to bed and all that jazz. One day. One thing we did do last year was go out into the back garden with binoculars on an evening that we were told Jupiter was very close. Relatively speaking, anyway. Close enough to see as a disk through a good pair of lenses. We definitely found the right bright spot in the sky, and I looked through the binoculars and saw a pearly orb, gently lined. A silver ornament, nothing like the great 1970s wallpaper planet that I was expecting. I still don't know if I really saw the bands of Jupiter or a reflection of my own eyelashes in something distant and out of focus. Subscribe to Eurogamer to read this article Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! Support us View supporter archive More Features Feature What games get wrong about horses And what they could do about it. 25 Feature Shout out to all the Overwatch supports - where would we be without you? Merci. 55 Feature From abandoned board game to birthing a genre: Football Manager at 40 Kick off. 21 Feature How I became an Elden Ring detective It started with a save game... 26 Latest Articles Atari will hold RollerCoaster Tycoon rights for another decade Ups and downs. 6 Jelly Deals Logitech's G Pro X gaming headset is its lowest-ever price during Amazon's Early Access sale Prime Members can get it for just £52. Jelly Deals Save over £500 off the retail price on this beefy ASUS TUF Dash gaming laptop from Amazon Under £1080 for an RTX 3070 laptop. Lady Dimitrescu will be a tad smaller in Resident Evil Village's Mercenaries DLC Level the playing field. 1 Supporters Only Premium only Off Topic: Take a minute to appreciate Cookin' with Coolio's incredible scallops recipe. What a great book. Premium only Off Topic: Reading City of Glass in comic form "Where exactly am I going?" Premium only Off Topic: Il Buco is a transporting film about a really big hole Underlands. Off-Topic Netflix handled Sandman brilliantly It was Dreamy. 9 Buy things with globes on them And other lovely Eurogamer merch in our official store! Explore our store