Pretty much same old same old this week. Which is not necessarily bad, Venus is still there in the North West soon after sun set, getting brighter all the time a little to the left of the Pleiades which are we about to lose until next autumn. During the next 10 days as the moon ages and shifts further toward the dawn sky, Venus may be bright to cast a shadow, if its dark enough. Venus along with the moon, the sun, the occasional very bright comet, and the even rarer super nova are the only celestial bodies capable of casting a shadow, we shall see.
Anyway I’ve been covering for Spider while he’s off on the mainland attending his gran’s funeral. And on Monday night I picked up Mo Widdop and before taking her own I drove down the mermaid car park to see Venus, and there it was, incandescent, the planet of love, and me and Mo, it was a very touching moment. And as an aside when Denis passes away, hopefully in many, many years to come Mo will become the widow Widdop, which I hope will be some consolation for her.
The summer constellations are beginning to appear in the dawn sky, Scorpio is there now with the full moon around an hour before Sunset, see the blog, because you won’t be up for it. Scorpio as you may know runs from 23 of October to 22 of November when it rises and sets with the sun. At the moment we’re in Taurus which sets a little after Venus at the moment but by the end of May it will be firmly attached to the Sun, and then it will be Gemini’s turn.
Tomorrow we have a full moon, which will give us fairly big tides for the upcoming weekend tedium. And a low tide for Sunday’s barbeque so hopefully it won’t come in and put the fire out hours before the end this year.
Mars, dimming farther into the distance, is high in the southwest during the evening. It's in Cancer east of the Beehive Star Cluster.
A bright Jupiter is low in the dawn. Look for it above the eastern horizon about 60 to 45 minutes before sunrise. Nothing else there is nearly so bright.
A not overly bright Saturn is high in the south during evening. Use the star map for Scilly on the blog to find it. In binoculars you should be able to Titan, which is Saturn’s largest moon, and is actually larger than Mercury.
That was your Night Sky over for the week ending on the 165th anniversary of William Walker departing from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.
Anyway I’ve been covering for Spider while he’s off on the mainland attending his gran’s funeral. And on Monday night I picked up Mo Widdop and before taking her own I drove down the mermaid car park to see Venus, and there it was, incandescent, the planet of love, and me and Mo, it was a very touching moment. And as an aside when Denis passes away, hopefully in many, many years to come Mo will become the widow Widdop, which I hope will be some consolation for her.
The summer constellations are beginning to appear in the dawn sky, Scorpio is there now with the full moon around an hour before Sunset, see the blog, because you won’t be up for it. Scorpio as you may know runs from 23 of October to 22 of November when it rises and sets with the sun. At the moment we’re in Taurus which sets a little after Venus at the moment but by the end of May it will be firmly attached to the Sun, and then it will be Gemini’s turn.
Tomorrow we have a full moon, which will give us fairly big tides for the upcoming weekend tedium. And a low tide for Sunday’s barbeque so hopefully it won’t come in and put the fire out hours before the end this year.
Mars, dimming farther into the distance, is high in the southwest during the evening. It's in Cancer east of the Beehive Star Cluster.
A bright Jupiter is low in the dawn. Look for it above the eastern horizon about 60 to 45 minutes before sunrise. Nothing else there is nearly so bright.
A not overly bright Saturn is high in the south during evening. Use the star map for Scilly on the blog to find it. In binoculars you should be able to Titan, which is Saturn’s largest moon, and is actually larger than Mercury.
That was your Night Sky over for the week ending on the 165th anniversary of William Walker departing from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.
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