the
two queens in the morning light and
watch the Wanderers
hey there stargazers I'm james oberg
director the key to Silverpop
planetarium in Gainesville Florida
and on dinner I guess stronger for the
Cincinnati Observatory
the brilliant planet Venus has dominated
the morning sky for most of this year
and soon a skinny crescent moon is going
to snuggle right up next to be nice
be sure to go out before dawn Sunday May
25th and look
east to find the moon just above beans a
great chance to use the moon as a finder
for identifying a plant let's show you
okay we have our sky set up facing
East before dawn next week and almost
exactly do
East about a just above the horizon Hill
easily spot a very bright point white
the planet Venus penis has been in the
morning sky since January
she reached her peak brightness in early
February has been demean slowly ever
since
as she steadily gets farther and farther
away from us
let's back up to early February and
notice for Venus was in the morning sky
back then
were set up to about an hour before
sunrise February 12 worker Venus was
she was much farther to the right in the
southeast
almost 40 degrees to the right heaviest
let's go forward in time a month to
march twelfth
penises shifted a little bit to the
north about two degrees
now another month to april twelfth and
there's a big change
almost fifteen degrees more to the north
let's do it again another month to mate
well
and businesses now almost twenty degrees
farther north
what's going on here here's where it was
at about an hour before sunrise in
February then in March
then in April and now in many and watch
how much BS will move over the next two
weeks
May 14th May 16 may 18
May 28 hate here comes the moon May 22nd
moon closer May 24 closer yet
and may twenty-fifth a really skinny 26
day old moon is about two and a half
degrees above beans
the moon is an important part of this
discussion about the sideways movement
have been its
because penis is shifting its position
northward about one moon with each day
one move with is about half a degree
venus is sometimes called the queen of
the planet's
but there's another queen in this area
at the sky just about Venus
look up and to the left Venus in the
pre-dawn sky
over the next few weeks and you easily
pick out the zig-zag WR stars that marks
the Queen
Cassie appear now when we say the word
Casio PO
we can mean several different things it
could refer to these five stars making a
kind of W in the sky
or it could mean the astronomical
constellation Cassiopeia
which is a weirdly shaped box in the sky
that looks like this
remember that astronomical
constellations are
arbitrarily defined areas at the sky
they are not all the same size or shape
and they can be really confusing it's
also important to remember that the
official constellations that astronomers
use
were developed for mapping the sky and
we're not defined in till nineteen third
or the word Cassie Appiah could refer to
the mythological
figure are the Queen a beach in ethiopia
at least
that's how the Greek saw the section in
the sky many the consolations predate
the Greeks and I
thousands of years old just but every
culture throughout history created their
own mythological figures
and selected star patterns which they
used to mark them out in the sky
how about the evening sky we have
anything interesting going on
after sunset actually we do in the
evening sky
Jupiter will show you how it moves over
the next few weeks
we have our skies setup facing west just
after it starts to get dark
jupiter is the brightest light out there
with the break Gemini twins Castor and
Pollux about
will start on May 18 and advance a week
at a time
may twenty-fifth June 1st
a four-day-old moon is nearby June a
June 15 notice the jupiter is rapidly
moving
eastward in the sky from below pollack's
on may eighteenth
to nearly in line with the Stars by June
21st
an even closer by june 20 8 keep
watching each night as Jupiter in Gemini
will soon be lost in the glare
some as you keeping looking up
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