Showing posts with label Astronomy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Astronomy. Show all posts

Sunday, March 10, 2019

Spring Forward: Daylight Savings Time

Did you remember to set your watches ahead today? I still have to set my stove, my radios, and my tall case clock.

The moving chart above is a Volvelle or an early paper rotating analog computer.

Peter Apian, 1495-1552. Astronomicum Caesareum, 1540.
Houghton Library, Harvard University

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Moon Over Manhattan - animated gif

Moon over Manhattan. via
Tonight we will have a waning Gibbous moon in Cancer with the sun in Sagittarius. It's all very complicated and interesting, isn't it? See the current moon calendar here. I don't really follow the astrological signs but plenty of people do. My mother used to be a dental assistant and one patient wouldn't have any dental work done if the sign was in the head. See the Medical Astrology chart here.
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Monday, December 20, 2010

Lunar Eclipse Overnight Tonight

North America and the western portion of South America will be treated to a rare total lunar eclipse in the early morning hours of December 21. I will look out the window if I wake up in the wee small hours of the morning because the moon might look like this. It is coinciding with the December 21st Winter Solstice or the first day of winter or my dear departed brother's birthday.

If you want an astronomer's description of what will be happening click here.

Country Girl from Maryland posted a great simple slideshow animation for the layman; it only lasts a few seconds. Watch it and you'll understand what is going to happen perfectly.

I just got back from walking Webster and it's as clear as a bell here in New Jersey. It is going to be spectacular. I heard a man on TV telling everyone to look for Orion's belt near the moon. I loved finding the constellations when I was a kid. Let me know if you stay up and watch it.


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Sunday, August 8, 2010

Night Sky in Spain | Perfect For Perseid Meteor Showers

This beautiful dark night sky in Spain would be the perfect place to watch the upcoming meteor showers. The 2010 Perseid meteor shower – August’s famous ’shooting stars’ – will peak this coming week, on the mornings of August 12 and 13. Any night this week, you might see the heavens filled with flying meteors.



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