Labels:bulletin board | hakham | monitor | path | person | poster | reckoner | sky | stairs | stairway | windowpane OCR: in the sky. In the center f the hamlet is a church with its spire barely break- ing the horizon line while at the left cypress tree towers aver the entire com position propelling itself into the animated firmament Described often asa hallucinatory visionar work the painting's theme remains apaque ta our benumbed methodologies. We must break this barrier of convention and excessive familiarity by looking different kinds af evidence Based on the position of the moon and the direction of the homs of the crescent, three of my colleagues ir the Department f Astronomy at UCLA agreed that the picture shaws us the eastern portion of pre dawn sky, approximately 4:00 in the morning Taking the latitude of Saint-Remy and using the date of June 10 1889 -the day Vincent wrate excitedly to Theo that at l ...