The plan was, I would get up at 2:45 Continue reading “White Fake (a kind of White Lie)”
Tag: astronomy
Sun Over
Court
Sliding Blocks of Time
Here’s a small foretaste from Astronomical Calendar 2016. Continue reading “Sliding Blocks of Time”
Mercury the Perverse
Venus-Mars-Cancer
Venus is slowing in its climb away from the Sun into the pre-dawn sky, but manages to pass Mars.
Morning Star
Yes, the spark of Venus now definitively burns through the low pre-dawn sky,
Teahouse of the August Moon
This is how the evening sky will look over the next few days.
A Piece of a Comet
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.
Still as while Saturn whirls
. . . his stedfast shade
Sleeps on his luminous ring Continue reading “Still as while Saturn whirls”