I only knew James for a few months - he was a lovely guy who welcomed me to the forum when I joined. It’s good to share his love of astronomy here in this thread.This thread was started by my late friend. Hope he is in peace today.
I only knew James for a few months - he was a lovely guy who welcomed me to the forum when I joined. It’s good to share his love of astronomy here in this thread.This thread was started by my late friend. Hope he is in peace today.
Legacy comes through simplicity. ♡I only knew James for a few months - he was a lovely guy who welcomed me to the forum when I joined. It’s good to share his love of astronomy here in this thread.
Wowww! It never looks like THAT in my sky down here in Tex-ass. Fantastic image!Let's add a Milky Way in the thread.
Milky Way and Zodiacal Light over Chile
Image Credit & Copyright: Roman Ponča (ht: Masaryk U.)
Well, long exposure, expensive camera equipment and clear skies get your that. To be able to see the Milky Way from your place is already awesome.Wowww! It never looks like THAT in my sky down here in Tex-ass. Fantastic image!
Awesome - but it shows him much impact people are having on the environment when we can be seen from space like that.
Let's add another perspective.
November 25-26
Wednesday evening into Thursday morning, Nov. 25 to 26, 2020, the bright planet Mars will appear above the waxing gibbous Moon. The Moon will appear about 34 degrees above the east-southeastern horizon as evening twilight ends (5:50 p.m. EST for the Washington, D.C. area), the Moon will reach its highest in the sky at 8:57 p.m., and Mars will set first in the west Thursday morning at 3:08 a.m.
Sometime toward the end of November or start of December 2020 (2020-Nov-26 04:41 UTC with 8 days, 1 hour, 42 minutes uncertainty), Near-Earth Object (2018 RQ4), between 36 to 81 feet (11 and 25 meters) across, will pass the Earth at between 1.1 and 22.3 lunar distances (nominally 8.1) traveling at 16,640 miles per hour (7.44 kilometers per second).
Thursday morning, Nov. 26, 2020, will be the last morning that the planet Mercury will be above the east-southeastern horizon when morning twilight begins for this apparition.
Thursday evening, Nov. 26, 2020, at 7:29 p.m. EST, the Moon will be at apogee, its farthest from the Earth for this orbit.
November 29-30
On Sunday evening into Monday morning, Nov. 29 to 30, 2020, the bright star Aldebaran will appear near the full Moon. The full Moon after next will be Monday morning at 4:30 a.m. EST. Around this time the Moon will pass through the partial shadow of the Earth (called a penumbral lunar eclipse), but the slight dimming of the Moon will be hard to notice without instrumentation.
Sandie, did you manage to get hold of that telescope? I'm going to try and get a photo tonight because our weather forecast for tomorrow isn't good.Whoohoo, making plans for this!
Our local library had a telescope I can loan. I've asked the librarian if she would put a hold on it for the 19-22.
Yes, if the fella that has it kindly returns it. Bastard
However, here's this ....
https://www.forbes.com/sites/starts...etime-planetary-alignment-on-december-21/amp/
No John and it is disappointing. The Bumm has been giving the librarian 59 excuses...rumor has it that he isn't in town at all. He's suspect for having offsconded with the telescope.Sandie, did you manage to get hold of that telescope? I'm going to try and get a photo tonight because our weather forecast for tomorrow isn't good.