WHATEVER planet Rab McNeil lives on cannot be short of moonshine, real or ethereal (Space ... the final frontier and quite possibly the last straw", The Herald, March 2). So thanks for that last-paragraph anecdote that, compared with the moon, the sun loses a bit of cosmic status by shining only in daytime when it's light anyway. What a heliocentric hoot on a dreich Saturday morning.

Gerry Burke,

Montgomery Place, Strachur, Argyll.