You may have seen, or contemplated, the three planets in today’s pre-dawn sky, with the Last Quarter Moon hanging above them. This is how they came to be so beautifully grouped for us.
Tag: astronomy
Tomorrow morning
A welcome to you if you’ve just learned about this blog. Here’s a welcome from the sky.
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I say little more
Its Name Means Sky
A density of meetings
Tomorrow morning the Moon will finish its plunge past a bright star and three bright planets by gliding less than a degree from little Mercury.
Just as you end your all-night vigil
The dawn scene on the other side of the Sun will be rising into your weary view:
Magical Dinosaur
If you see a shooting star around now, it likely is one of the meteors called Draconids.
Comet we should’a visited
An interesting comet will be very near to Saturn this evening, which may help in finding it with a good telescopes or binoculars.
Bull’s Eye
The Moon is aiming for Aldebaran, the bright reddish “eye” of Taurus the Bull.
White Fake (a kind of White Lie)
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