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Saturn run over by the Moon
Mercury’s vertical leap
Mercury stands farthest out from the Sun, in the evening sky.
Four planets and a skeleton key
Here is Saturday morning’s sky.
Two sugars in the Teaspoon
Here is the sky an hour before sunrise on Monday.
A shiny place in the sky
The waxing Moon will appear close to Mars and remote Uranus in the evening sky of Sunday, February 10.
How many stars in Orion’s body?
How many stars can you see with naked eye inside the rectangle of Orion?
The groundhog and the extremes
It’s colder than ever – we woke to our first snow here this morning, February 1. So you’ll think at least one and a half times before going out in tomorrow’s dawn to see what the groundhog sees.
The Moon at Mid-Arch from Full to New
The Last Quarter Moon of January 27 will be about as high north of the ecliptic as it can get. You can see why, in this Continue reading “The Moon at Mid-Arch from Full to New”
A pairing of the brightest planets
Another spectacle for the pre-dawn sky, Continue reading “A pairing of the brightest planets”