The Perseid meteors should be abundant, in the night between August 11 and 12 – Thursday evening into the dark morning hours of Friday morning.
Month: August 2016
The RAS out under the sun
Picnickers, yesterday, looked out from the Greenwich Observatory (or near it) over the universe (or at any rate over London).
Jupiter closely touched by two
The crescent Moon will make a show with distant Jupiter, low over the sunset horizon on Friday, August 5.
And there is, in a sense, a third body in this line-up, a human-made one called Juno. Continue reading “Jupiter closely touched by two”