Tonight the moon will be full. Make sure you get yours.
What do you call the full moon in March?
Posts Tagged ‘astronomy’
What am I Lego loving?
January 22, 2020
“Lego is adding to its catalog of space-themed kits, today announcing a replica of the International Space Station. Available from next month, the latest product to emerge via Lego’s Ideas program is built to challenge space enthusiasts with a 864-piece set that features moving parts to mimic some of the orbiting laboratory’s realistic functions.
Just like the Saturn V Apollo rocket set, the Women of NASA set and the Apollo 11 Lunar Lander set, the International Space Station set is designed to inspire space enthusiasts young and old by bringing some of humankind’s grandest engineering achievements to the living room floor.”
As you can see from the image above – this product is not necessarily for children. The space station will launch on February 1.
from: New Atlas
Happy Solstice
December 23, 2019Yesterday was the shortest day of the year here at
41.486338″ N, 81.498847″ W
This is a photo of the shadow of the flagpole outside the local post office at “high” noon yesterday. The sun never got any higher than this.
I hope you cast your cakes and ale under the trees to help bring back the sun.
Where is Mercury?
November 11, 2019
Grab your solar eclipse glasses or protected astronomical equipment, because Mercury is marching across the sun as we speak.
The closest planet to the sun began its transit — an apparent passage across the sun from the perspective of Earth — at 7:35 a.m. EST (1235 GMT) and will continue its journey for 5.5 hours. It will be visible in the U.S.and many other parts of the world. Be sure to check this event out, as it will be the last time until 2032 that Mercury transits the sun. And that occurrence won’t be visible in the U.S.; Americans will have to wait until 2049 for the next visible event.
You can watch the Mercury transit of 2019 live here, courtesy of Slooh.com. You can also watch the Slooh webcast directly here on YouTube.
Of course, the weather here is . . .
What am I celebrating?
July 7, 2019
“This weekend is Tanabata (七夕, meaning “Evening of the seventh”), a Japanese festival celebrating the meeting of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi. According to legend, the Milky Way separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh month. To celebrate, 3700 candles have been placed in front of Tokyo’s Zojoji Temple, curving their way to Tokyo Tower and creating an illusion of twinkling stars reaching up to the sky.”
Why am I saying, “by Jupiter*?”
February 13, 2019*An ellipsis of a full oath of the form “I swear by Jupiter that…”. (wiki)
Gunsmoke and Knitting 