Fred Schaaf in his Sky & Telescope column for this month looks back fondly on the great comet tails that graced the May sky 33 and 30 years ago – Iras-Araki-Alcock and Halley – and then points out Continue reading “Tails in the Sky”
Category: astronomy
Link to the Transit of Mercury
On Monday May 9 comes the passage of the pinpoint black planet (here shown 5 times larger than scale) across the vast boiling face of the Sun.
Longitude zero
This line
D-Day Minus Three
We are in the last three days of worried house-packing, but I can’t resist taking time to show you this evening’s sky –
New and Near
New Moon today. Continue reading “New and Near”
Sunday
This Easter Sunday is the last Sunday in March, so Continue reading “Sunday”
Planet walk, and Palm Sunday equinox
It’s about 2 AM on Sunday morning, March 20. We got back yesterday evening from our trip to London and the planet walk on Fortune Green. Continue reading “Planet walk, and Palm Sunday equinox”
Jupiter is at opposition
The Thousand-Yard Model in a London park
British Science Week is March 11 to 20: Continue reading “The Thousand-Yard Model in a London park”
Wallace and the track of next week’s eclipse
The first of this year’s two total eclipses is drawing near: March 9, to be seen from within a narrow path across the Earth:
Continue reading “Wallace and the track of next week’s eclipse”