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.
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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.
This is another confession. Continue reading “Quadrantids and Edot revisited”
I opened the front door and was confronted by a ladder. Continue reading “The Twelfth Day of Christmas”
John Goss has an excellent short survey of astronomical 2016 Continue reading “Moon-Venus-Saturn-Antares in the mornings to come”
Today, January 5, came the latest sunrise, Continue reading “Does the bloodroot hear?”
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.
– the comet that is now like a faint star close to brilliant Arcturus. Continue reading “More on Catalina”
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.