For the first of 13 times this year, the Moon will on Tuesday-Wednesday night (Jan. 19/20) pass so close to Aldebaran that it occults (hides) the great “eye of the Bull.”
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Constellation Bowie? I don’t think so
Rock star David Bowie died, and according to Continue reading “Constellation Bowie? I don’t think so”
Dusky skies
The sky over the sea yesterday morning.
And an older painting, pulled out of a closet, of an evening scene in the agora of Athens, where Socrates used to stroll with his friends.
Quadrantids and Edot revisited
This is another confession. Continue reading “Quadrantids and Edot revisited”
The Twelfth Day of Christmas
I opened the front door and was confronted by a ladder. Continue reading “The Twelfth Day of Christmas”
Moon-Venus-Saturn-Antares in the mornings to come
John Goss has an excellent short survey of astronomical 2016 Continue reading “Moon-Venus-Saturn-Antares in the mornings to come”
Does the bloodroot hear?
Today, January 5, came the latest sunrise, Continue reading “Does the bloodroot hear?”
The Quadrantids and the Edot
The Quadrantid meteor stream hits us in the night of Jan. 3/4. Here is the picture from Astronomical Calendar 2016 page 6, but more expansively and with an addition.
More on Catalina
– the comet that is now like a faint star close to brilliant Arcturus. Continue reading “More on Catalina”
Comets Catalina and Berenices
Comet Catalina (C/2013 US10) is now fairly easily findable in binoculars as it climbs from eastern Virgo into Boötes, and when several people remarked on this I remembered about Berenice’s Comet.
