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…and you should be able to see a very bright Venus just off it’s bottom crescent tip as that planet is now at it’s nearest to the Earth.
Cloudy here, though.
Mike
There’s a bloody big light above it – I was trying to work it out, and thought it was Mars.
How can it be Venus? Someone will need to draw me a diagram.
Being Inferior Planets (between us and the sun) Venus and Mercury are only ever visible shortly after sunset or shortly before sunrise depending where they are in their orbits: to the left of the sun after sunset, to the right of the sun before sunrise.
Venus is frequently visible in a dark sky but Mercury being closest of all to the sun is only ever visible in a twilit sky: a mercurial glimpse
A ‘conjunction’ of the new crescent moon and one or both of the inferior planets after sunset is a coincidence, but an always pleasing one.
Bar the moon, Venus is the brightest object in the night sky. A pair of 10x binoculars and a steady hand should reveal it too to be a crescent at present.
Inevitably…
http://luckyninja.com/moon_song/
gc
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On the subject of Venus I don’t suppose anyone is old enough to remember a programme that was on telly called Pathfinders to Venus [and also Pathfinders to Mars]…the people involved with it went on to make Dr Who….Gerald.even your parents were probably not born when it was on…..
On the subject of Venus I don’t suppose anyone is old enough to remember a programme that was on telly called Pathfinders to Venus
No, but I do remember the brill
Destination Venus
by Edinburgh punkies The Rezillos….
Mike
No moon last night here; too cloudy..pity cos I do a lot of moon watching and when we had a particularly humid summer years ago used to do a spot of moonbathing also.
THE HALF MOON SHOWS
A FACE OF PLAINTIVE SWEETNESS
The half moon shows a face of plaintive sweetness
Ready and poised to wax or wane;
A fire of pale desire in incompleteness,
Tending to pleasure or to pain:-
Lo, while we gaze she rolleth on in fleetness
To perfect loss or perfect gain.
Half bitterness we know, we know half sweetness;
This world is all on wax, on wane:
When shall completeness round time’s incompleteness,
Fulfilling joy, fulfilling pain?-
Lo, while we ask, life rolleth on in fleetness
To finished loss or finished gain.
By Christina RossettiNo, but I do remember the brill
Destination Venus
by Edinburgh punkies The Rezillos….
Tune!!
Also lovingly covered by space-obsessed surf band
Man… Or Astroman?
some 15 years ago, if memory serves.
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Wow, that was a beautiful moon last night.
Couldn’t comment on it earlier, as I went to Dover, was sick on the train on the way home, and fell asleep when I got here.
Presumably the 3 lights near it were all planets? One was a couple of inches to the left, another was a few inches to the East South-East (relative to the Moon), and a bright one was way off to the East South East.
Wow, that was a beautiful moon last night.
Presumably the 3 lights near it were all planets? One was a couple of inches to the left, another was a few inches to the East South-East (relative to the Moon), and a bright one was way off to the East South East.
The brightest and biggest full moon of the year as the moon is currently at ‘perigee’ i.e its closest to earth
One was a planet – Mars (reddish) the one to the left. The other two you noticed were probably the stars Procyon (before the dog) and Sirius (the dog star) which are the brightest stars in the region you mention
A lovely sight indeed
: The Moon
Post by cormack15 » 30 Jan 2010, 08:59
The Rezillos were from Fife weren’t they?EDinburgh…the lead singer now has the Indian Motorcycle licence for Europe and theyt are still huge and still touring in Japan
Thanks Drone.
Have to admit that I didn’t notice a reddish hue, but that is just my observational skills. I’ll try having a look sometime in the next couple of days.
Not too sure about Sirius though, as that is part of Orion, which is the only constellation I know. I’ll have another look at that as well. I’m probably wrong.
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