Chaotic Astronomy

The asteroid Ceres passes through Messier 8 the lagoon nebula on Monday and Tuesday evening — photo op!

Only 3 hours and 17 minutes of astronomical darkness on Saturday evening. Not many mosquitoes yet fortunately.

Comet C2008 R1 (McNaught) is now about magnitude 7.8 and expected to brighten as it nears the Sun, may get to magnitude 2 according to some predictions. Take a look around 4:15 am.

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Velikovsky revisited, again. Dr Immanuel Velikovsky, Hero or Villain?

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Music By Delirium (First track) and Felix (Second and Third tracks)

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Moon interfers with dark sky viewing this week unless you are willing to get up very early in the morning. There are some brief but fairly bright passes of the ISS in the early evenings. Still time to view Jupiter in the early evening. Mars is getting a bit bigger and brighter. It will be at opposition with Earth in late January. There is a transit of Io, Ganymede, and the GRS Friday evening. Might make neat video sequence for dedicated planetary imagers.

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