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[rootofnewt]

Is it dark where you are? Is the sky clear? Are you in the northern hemisphere (I need to get coordinates from friends in the southern hemisphere so I can look at the sky where you are on heavens-above sometime).

Go outside.

Look east.

See the moon? Okay. Just to the right of it (slightly south, slightly higher in altitude) is Saturn. Isn't that pretty?

Look to the left a little distance. That bright yellow star is Capella, in Auriga. Now, travel in a straight line from Capella to Saturn. Make a right angle upward. That bright star completing the triangle is Aldebaran, in Taurus. Isn't that pretty?

Now, you can make another triangle. This one is also right. Go from Saturn to the moon, turn 90 degrees up. That star? Elnath, also in Taurus. Two pretty triangles right there in the East.

I just thought some of you might enjoy this. Now I'm going to go see if I can spot Uranus or Neptune before they set. I think Aquila is also setting, or I'd try to spot the comet Kudo-Fujikawa.

Comments

[linnapaw.livejournal.com]

I went outside per your suggestion.. And realized that I'm probably currently in the most light-polluted spot in Bavaria at the moment. I will try when I get home though. :) Thanks for the tip.

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

I'd much rather watch you than Jack Horkheimer. (:

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Now I'm going to go see if I can spot Uranus

Not going there... nope... :-P

[lachupacabra.livejournal.com]

Now I'm going to go see if I can spot Uranus

i could NOT pass that one up.
;D

it sucks that the city lights are too bright to see anything
around here. its one of the only things i miss about living
up north.

[krasota.livejournal.com]

The moon is so bright here that I have no hope of seeing 5.5 mag Uranus. In fact, I can barely see 3.05 Dabih and even Fomalhaut (1.17mag) is lost in the western haze.

[lachupacabra.livejournal.com]

hey...this doesnt have anything to do with the stars
but my sister wanted me to ask you if youd ever heard
of jordan rubin? you can get his book for free (you do
have to pay postage) on his website. if you cant swing
the postage, let me know, she'll send you her copy.

i cant stop thinking about how yucky youre feeling
& how fucked up it is. i feel so bad & i wish there
was something i could do.
*hug*

Stars and stuff

[(Anonymous)]

I'd love to know all that! Only star formation I know is the Plough tho. I did see a really bright star in the sky tho at the weekend, I can't say where it was, other than fairly low in the sky, but not quite at horizon level. Maybe that was some planet (I think they are brighter than stars?).

Well after embarrassing myself on that lil bit... I'll now plod along.

Sarah.

[stmaybe.livejournal.com]

professor krasota - i just love your astronomy lessons!

[dahliablue.livejournal.com]

you need to visit me. you and my dad would have a grand time in our backyard observatory. :)
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[sabethea.livejournal.com]

thanks. i did.

i'll go out and look when it gets dark