Here is the pre-dawn sky of Friday, March 1.

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Mercury stands farthest out from the Sun, in the evening sky.
Here is Saturday morning’s sky.

Here is the sky an hour before sunrise on Monday.
As I was taking my shower, some train of thought led me to an interpretation of the Greek myth of Prometheus. Continue reading “What was the fire Prometheus brought?”
The waxing Moon will appear close to Mars and remote Uranus in the evening sky of Sunday, February 10.

How many stars can you see with naked eye inside the rectangle of Orion?

It’s colder than ever – we woke to our first snow here this morning, February 1. So you’ll think at least one and a half times before going out in tomorrow’s dawn to see what the groundhog sees.

The Last Quarter Moon of January 27 will be about as high north of the ecliptic as it can get. You can see why, in this Continue reading “The Moon at Mid-Arch from Full to New”
Yet another warning 
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