Weather Watchers
Related: About this forumStep away from your computer. Go outside and look at the moon and Venus. NT
Last edited Thu Nov 9, 2023, 06:57 AM - Edit history (1)
2naSalit
(87,115 posts)They are just coming up and they are orange!
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,875 posts)I would have liked to have seen them rise. I was up early enough, but I hadn't thought about it at the time. I wish I had had the foresight to look.
And good morning.
2naSalit
(87,115 posts)I look at the sky as soon as I get up, each time. Now it's all behind a cloud but I did catch the actual rising over the edge of the mountain. Any further south and I wouldn't see it for another hour with mountains in the way.
Some mornings, because I go outside right away, I can watch the ISS go by. You can tell it isn't a satellite because the light never fades - as a satellite reflector would disappear. I am blessed with no light pollution.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,875 posts)It was not scheduled to be a good sighting, only a minute long and pretty low. We won't have another good one until the 13th. I missed a terrific one a few days ago, because I got the time wrong.
https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/view.cfm?country=United_States®ion=Virginia&city=Alexandria
samnsara
(17,678 posts)sky. The kids were youngins then and we would go out and watch the ISS go by over head. I have too many trees at my house to see it now.
progree
(10,968 posts)... At that hour, on this particular morning, hanging about one-quarter of the way up in the sky, you will see a waning crescent moon, 15% illuminated by the sun, and sitting less than a degree to its right will be Venus, blazing at magnitude -4.4, or 15 times brighter than Sirius, the brightest star.
To see a map of the sky from one's locale (you can change the time)
https://in-the-sky.org/skymap2.php
(get rid of that deep space junk with that checkbox below the sky map and on the left side -- nobody can see any of that stuff unless they live 50 miles from the nearest street lamp, so its just clutter)
I would be lost without this because of the city lights, so few stars and planets are visible, so this helps enormously in finding things and being sure that what I'm seeing is actually what I think I'm seeing.
For those who want to see the H.A. Rey version of the constellations: On the left side below the sky map, there is the default setting: "Simplified Designs". Pull down on its arrow, and choose "H.A. Rey's designs".
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,875 posts)samnsara
(17,678 posts)progree
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