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The Moon as a tape-measure
Watch the Full Moon rise on Good Friday evening.
A sky group this evening
The slender Moon, 3 days and 19 hours old, approaches red Mars and red Aldebaran.
Slender Moon for Saturday evening
Spring evenings are favorable for catching the Young Moon. It climbs Continue reading “Slender Moon for Saturday evening”
Moon, Saturn, Jupiter in the dawn sky
Lined up to the east of the Sun are Continue reading “Moon, Saturn, Jupiter in the dawn sky”
The steep hill of spring
On March and April evenings, planets Continue reading “The steep hill of spring”
Saturn run over by the Moon
The Moon at Mid-Arch from Full to New
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”
Moon Ahead!
We’re looking ahead in more than one sense: the Moon will be at its Last Quarter Continue reading “Moon Ahead!”
New Moon and coinciding New Years
New Moon was on September 9 (at 18h Universal Time), so the Moon is barely above the horizon at sunset.
