It occurred to me to plot the EDOT in both ways and see how much they differ.
The EDOT is Continue reading “Mars dead ahead”
Category: astronomy
Venus Valentina
Valentine’s morning (tomorrow) will be toward the last for seeing the two inner planets together as they stoop toward the Sun.
Wild Carrot Galaxies
White spirals: that was the cover-painting theme for my Astronomical Calendar one year (1994). On the front was a hurricane called Hyacinth, its violent spiral spanning several hundred miles; inside was the Whirlpool Galaxy, otherwise known as Messier 51, forty thousand light-years wide; and on the back was the plant called Queen Anne’s Lace, painted at true scale, I think, its flowering head six inches wide.
I remembered about this because I’ve found five other drawings I must have made of that plant in South Carolina.
Trios, if you count Pluto
Peering to the right of the Sun – that is, being out on the morning side of our spinning planet – is still the way to see planetary activity.
The stories told by satellites’ names
There will have to be a new printing before long of Albedo to Zodiac, my astronomical glossary, so Continue reading “The stories told by satellites’ names”
Jupiter before midnight
Jupiter has departed from the company of the pre-dawn planets (Mars, Saturn, Venus, Mercury) and has begun coming up over the eastern horizon well before midnight.
Planet Nine discovered, maybe or even probably
There may be a planet at an enormous distance from the Sun: Continue reading “Planet Nine discovered, maybe or even probably”
Closely confined
There are two more sky events for Wednesday, though unlike Continue reading “Closely confined”
Red star pricks Moon balloon
For the first of 13 times this year, the Moon will on Tuesday-Wednesday night (Jan. 19/20) pass so close to Aldebaran that it occults (hides) the great “eye of the Bull.”
Constellation Bowie? I don’t think so
Rock star David Bowie died, and according to Continue reading “Constellation Bowie? I don’t think so”