Tag: moon
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The Gardens of the West Australian Night Sky 20th to 26th July 2024
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in SkyIt might still be cold and crisp outside, but head to an elevated spot with fish and chips (or pizza, or burgers ….) by 6pm. While its available just after sunset and before it sets, look 5 deg. above the WNW to sight Venus, it should be obvious being the brightest planet and comparable to…
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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 Night Sky 25th to 31st March 2024
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in SkyWhoosh, another Month bites the dust. Go East young/old, man/woman. The eastern horizon has a wonderful trio of planets (called ‘wanderers’ in antiquity) 30 minutes before the onset of another glorious West Australian sunrise. Why ‘wanderers’? because they didn’t travel at the same speed as the stars and would occasionally freak the crap out of…
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The Gardens of the Night Sky 2nd to 8th March 2024
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in SkyWell, March already and some would say that Summer is over, well, that’s not exactly true. Meteorologists and climatologists like to fit our 4 ‘seasons’ into neat little 3-month boxes, Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn. The ‘seasons’ are actually as a result of the Earth’s tilt towards the Sun, so different parts of the Earth…
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The Gardens of the Night Sky 24th February to 1st March 2024
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in SkyWow, it’s nearly a quarter of the way through the year already. Closing out a leap year February, fun fact, some countries such as Persia/Iran and Afghanistan don’t have leap days per say, because their calendar is not based upon math but the timing of the vernal equinox making their calendars extremely accurate; the intricacies…
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