A quick reminder
Month: August 2016
The Anthropocene epoch has begun
What does that mean and does it matter?
Proxima’s baby
You probably know by now that a planet has been discovered around the very nearest star. I thought I’d show you where in space that star is.
Venus and Jupiter make one star
The year’s closest conjunction of planets comes this Saturday – and they are the two brightest.
Azequid, and other projections
Here again is the sky chart
Fisheye pictures
In a room in Pembroke College, Cambridge, hangs a round picture in a square frame.
The view around us
Here is an attempt to show how several things are now arranged in space.
Dud events
Mercury will on August 16 stand out far on the evening side of the Sun – the farthest for the year. And yet it is the year’s worst apparition of Mercury!
And a present scene for ALCON
This is the sky a little later into the night–
A recent scene
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