rootofnewt | (no subject)

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.