Commenting on “It Makes Me Smart,” Joan asked “what the picture is of and how does it illustrate ambiguity?”
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Draconid meteors and Fall Astronomy Day
The Draconid meteors may be seen in the nights of Friday and Saturday, October 7 and 8 –
It Makes Me Smart
A fine, resounding ambiguity! A clanger of an ambiguity! I think it’s better even than my previous favorite, “The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries.”
Jews and Muslims Agree
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.
Ground Rules
When you do me the honor of contributing a comment to this blog, I get a message asking me to “approve” it, which I always do. Continue reading “Ground Rules”
Astronomical Calendar 2017, dose 2
Click again on the “Astronomical Calendar 2017” tab above. I’m adding. It will be an intermittent process.
Forty-three
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.
Astronomical Calendar 2017
Many have complained, a few angrily but others understandingly, about the cessation of the annual Continue reading “Astronomical Calendar 2017”
Cutty Sark
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.
North Nods Noxward
This year it will happen on Thursday September 22, at 14:21 Universal (Greenwich) time.
