Tag: planets
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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 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 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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The Gardens of the Night Sky 20th to 26th January 2024
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in SkyJupiter is still the most prominent celestial object dominating the NNW horizon by 8pm when it can be found sitting 40 degrees up. …..that’s four stacked clenched fists at arm’s length, each being 10 degrees. I’d wait an hour when it sits 30 degrees above the NW. At this point, its 4 brightest moons, surprisingly…
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