The year’s closest conjunction of planets comes this Saturday – and they are the two brightest.
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Azequid, and other projections
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
A recent scene
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Flashes from the hero’s helmet
The Perseid meteors should be abundant, in the night between August 11 and 12 – Thursday evening into the dark morning hours of Friday morning.
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”