The Draconid meteors may be seen in the nights of Friday and Saturday, October 7 and 8 –

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The Draconid meteors may be seen in the nights of Friday and Saturday, October 7 and 8 –

A fine, resounding ambiguity! A clanger of an ambiguity! I think it’s better even than my previous favorite, “The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries.”

The Moon was New on Saturday October 1, very early on that date, and therefore conceivably becomes visible as a very thin crescent at the sunset of October 2.
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Click again on the “Astronomical Calendar 2017” tab above. I’m adding. It will be an intermittent process.

Yesterday, forty-three empty chairs faced the Mexican embassy in London, mutely reproaching the government for hiding the truth about forty-three disappeared young men.

Many have complained, a few angrily but others understandingly, about the cessation of the annual Continue reading “Astronomical Calendar 2017”
If you were to visit me this year by means of Google Earth, you would find yourself descending on me through a lofty tangle of masts, spars, and ropes.

This year it will happen on Thursday September 22, at 14:21 Universal (Greenwich) time.

That was the simplest and commonest version of the placards held up by the folk marching through London yesterday from Hyde Park to Parliament Square.
