Mars will pass Jupiter on May 29, and the waning Moon comes by them in the morning sky.
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Here is a sequence of events, taken from the May pages in Astronomical Calendar 2022:
May 25 Wed 1 UT Moon, Mars, and Jupiter within circle of diameter 3.33°; about 62° from the Sun in the morning sky; magnitudes -9, 1, -2
May 25 Wed 4 Moon 2.92° SE of Jupiter; 61° from Sun in morning sky; magnitudes -8.8 and -2.2
May 25 Wed 7 Jupiter crosses equator northward
May 25 Wed 11 Mars and Saturn at heliocentric conjunction; longitude 319.4°
May 26 Thu 1 Mars at southernmost latitude from the ecliptic plane, -1.8°
May 29 SUN 11 Mars 0.58° SE of Jupiter; 65° from Sun in morning sky; magnitudes 0.7 and -2.2
May 30 Mon 9 Mars crosses equator northward
May 30 Mon 11:31 New Moon
And here is a space view from 15° north of the ecliptic plane, showing the planets’ travels in May, with sightlines from Earth to them at May 25. The four inner planets are exaggerated 300 times in size, Jupiter 50 times, the Sun 4 times. The dashed line is the vernal equinox direction.
Blue, yellow, red, green
I had to vote, on May 5, in a local election (for councillors in the London borough of Hounslow). The instruction was to vote for three out of a list of candidates. The list included 3 Conservative, 2 Labour, 2 Liberal Democrat, 1 Green.
This is, for me at least, two “sides,” with one of the sides splits between 5 candidates. Someone approving the conservative side has no dilemma. Someone approving the other side has a manifold dilemma. Vote for the Green and one each (a random choice) of the other two? Or some other combination? Whichever way, there is no way of being sure to strengthen the likelihood of a result you would approve.
There was no reason why we shouldn’t have been allowed to vote for as many candidates as we wished. Approval Voting.
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You could say that those voting for the Liberals are the ones with the dilemma as it’s only about 10 years that the Liberals backed up David Cameron,or has the Queen churned out a Sir for him by now?,thus giving an extra 4 years of Conservate government and Sir Vince Cable’s privatisation of the Post Office.People however have short memories but perhaps the Liberals posters should say Conservatives winning Here!
I vote for the planets in order on June 5 and including Pluto! From 1 to 9, inclusive, from innermost to outermost! A broad spectrum viewpoint as it were.
In June all 5 naked eye planets line up IN ORDER A.M. sky, (Merc closest to horizon, Saturn farthest) know the last time, or the next time this will happen?
I voted in the Australian federal election last Saturday. There were 8 candidates in my seat. To cast a valid vote I had to place all the numbers 1 through 8 in order of preference against the candidates’ names.