Tag: mars
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The Gardens of the Night Sky 15th to 21st June 2024
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in SkyStargazing is often aligned with existentialism (relating to existence or being alive) and our place in the Cosmos, but more importantly in these troubling times it allows us to almost lose ourselves while we gawk and wonder, which is a good thing. Let’s start our gawking around 6am, a mere 30 minutes before sunrise. Looking…
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The Gardens of the WA Night Sky 8th to 14th June 2024
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in SkyWell, we’ve lost the eastern skies planet Mercury to superior conjunction (Mercury-Sun-Earth) which means as an inferior planet it will reappear again in the evening skies next month and this apparition will be a corker, so get set for it. With the evening skies still wanting of early or late planet observing opportunities, the earliest…
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The Gardens of the Perth Night Sky 1st to 7th June 2024
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in SkyWell, according to the meteorological calendar we are now in the season of Winter. However, in 3 weeks’ time, astronomically and mathematically we will actually be in Winter, unlike some who need perfect silos to work from, astronomers can, and have to, go with the facts; the reason for the seasons is the Earth’s tilted…
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The Gardens of the West Australian Night Sky 25th to 31st May 2024
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in SkyAs I headed to the car the other morning around 5.45am on my may to work, I could not miss the early morning westerly view; I stood for 10 minutes in awe. There, sitting 20 deg. above the WSW was the unmistakable bright red star Antares in the constellation of Scorpio, the Scorpion. I quickly…
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The Gardens of the Night Sky 27th April to 3rd May 2024
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in SkyThe mornings are a veritable planetary feast, maybe head out with breakfast and cuppa to herald in the Dawn or ……. Drag the kids or grandchildren out of bed at 5.45am and look slightly north of due east and just under 10 deg. to find the planet Mercury, which in binoculars, will look like a…
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The Gardens of the Night Sky 6th to 12th April 2024
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in SkyNow I have your attention…. doughnuts are great. Astronomy, from the Greek word ‘astron’, meaning star, only dates back to the 12th Century and it is the ‘systematic recording of astronomical observations’, everything else is stargazing. Astronomers, of which Australia has its share, dedicate their time to observing, researching and publishing their results in journals…
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The Gardens of the Night Sky 18th to 24th March 2024
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in SkyOn Wednesday the Earth will reach the Autumnal Equinox, from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night). On, and either side for a few days, there will be almost equal amounts of daylight and night-time hours and no, eggs cannot be stood upright on this day, but scientific Autumn, if there is such a thing,…
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The Gardens of the Night Sky 10th to 15th March 2024
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in SkyFor those relatively early risers like me, the white-yellow planet Venus is getting lower in the East to ESE around 5am, sitting less than 10 deg. up. It is kinda accompanied by the subtle red Mars which however is getting higher and by Friday sits 15 deg. up, slightly south of East. With our 2-dimensional…
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