It’s about 2 AM on Sunday morning, March 20. We got back yesterday evening from our trip to London and the planet walk on Fortune Green. Continue reading “Planet walk, and Palm Sunday equinox”
Category: astronomy
Jupiter is at opposition
The Thousand-Yard Model in a London park
British Science Week is March 11 to 20: Continue reading “The Thousand-Yard Model in a London park”
Wallace and the track of next week’s eclipse
The first of this year’s two total eclipses is drawing near: March 9, to be seen from within a narrow path across the Earth:
Continue reading “Wallace and the track of next week’s eclipse”
We’re at Guantánamo, Which Way to Mecca?
The red curve is the shortest route between them.
Leap babies
Leap day coming on Monday. Here are a “common” year and a leap year side by side. Continue reading “Leap babies”
On the tip of your tongue?
Names such as “Sirius” and “Rigel” are traditional, Continue reading “On the tip of your tongue?”
Mars dead ahead
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”
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.
