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Month: November 2018

Past Earths revisited, and the software that finds them

Here is the sky this Wednesday evening –

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Author GuyPosted on 2018-11-282018-11-28Categories astronomy, geometryTags astronomy, Earth10 Comments on Past Earths revisited, and the software that finds them

A trail of Earths, re-sent

I apologize for sending this post a second time.  I forgot one step: putting in the “Read more of this post” interruption.  That meant that the whole thing was in the email, and you couldn’t read it like a web page, or enlarge the pictures in the way I suggested at the end.

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Author GuyPosted on 2018-11-222018-11-23Categories astronomy8 Comments on A trail of Earths, re-sent

A trail of Earths

Here is the sky scene this evening – with a startling addition.

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Author GuyPosted on 2018-11-222018-11-22Categories astronomy3 Comments on A trail of Earths

The Leonids may or may not Roar

The Leonid shower is notorious – outrageous – flamboyant – incomparable – erratic – bipolar.


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Author GuyPosted on 2018-11-162018-11-16Categories astronomyTags astronomy, Leonid meteors, meteors10 Comments on The Leonids may or may not Roar

Venus hovers near Spica

Watch out for a new product, to be called the “Zodiacal Wavy Chart.”  This is a snippet of it:

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Author GuyPosted on 2018-11-132018-11-13Categories astronomy, calendar, seasons, time, geometryTags appulses, astronomy, conjunctions, Spica, stars, Venus5 Comments on Venus hovers near Spica

Regard the Sun

Was it fair to call the three words I recited at yesterday’s Armistice commemoration – the names of my three dead uncles – a poem? Continue reading “Regard the Sun”

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Author GuyPosted on 2018-11-122018-11-15Categories language, literatureTags clouds, poetry, prose, sun, verse6 Comments on Regard the Sun

Peace Bells Follow-Up

We went by Lyme Regis’s parish church at half past midday, but Continue reading “Peace Bells Follow-Up”

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Author GuyPosted on 2018-11-112018-11-12Categories best?, Lyme Regis, miscellaneousTags aice Day, World War One3 Comments on Peace Bells Follow-Up

Peace bells

Today bells will ring throughout Britain and Germany, and possibly in many or all other nations, Continue reading “Peace bells”

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The Burning of the Barrels

This wild event, Continue reading “The Burning of the Barrels”

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Author GuyPosted on 2018-11-062018-11-15Categories calendar, seasons, time, history, archaeology, placesTags Burning of the Barrels, festivals, Ottery St. Mary11 Comments on The Burning of the Barrels

My Name is a Joke

“Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, gunpowder, treason, and plot.”  And then remember, on the next day Continue reading “My Name is a Joke”

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Author GuyPosted on 2018-11-042018-11-04Categories calendar, seasons, time, languageTags Guy Fawkes; names; election day; calendar11 Comments on My Name is a Joke

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