This picture just might lure you to go out early very early on a late-summer morning and look at the pre-dawn sky, in which you just might be able, with telescope or large binoculars, to see a comet in the midst of the stars of Gemini.
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Still as while Saturn whirls
. . . his stedfast shade
Sleeps on his luminous ring Continue reading “Still as while Saturn whirls”
Assumption Day
For Venus, this year falls into two acts, and August 15 is the date that divides them. Continue reading “Assumption Day”
The Great Meteor Shower of August
The Perseids are rising toward one of the best of their annual displays.
Happenings at Leo’s Front
The year’s closest conjunction of a planet with a first-magnitude star occurs during our August 11 daytime, which, Continue reading “Happenings at Leo’s Front”
Nightingales
A year ago died Barbara Murray, whose two little books Continue reading “Nightingales”
Science and Counter-Science
Dengue is nicknamed “breakbone fever” because of the excruciating pain it causes. Continue reading “Science and Counter-Science”
Blue-in-a-Sense Moon
You may have read that the Full Moon of yesterday, July 31, was a Blue Moon, because there was also a Full Moon on July 2. I return from Continue reading “Blue-in-a-Sense Moon”
Hurtling Through the Sky, a Baby with Enamel Bottom
How about a little light relief from astronomy? One of the ways I waste my time Continue reading “Hurtling Through the Sky, a Baby with Enamel Bottom”
Four-body problem
A changing pattern made by two or three celestial bodies that move past each other at angles or in curves can be quite complex; what about four?
