season without Giants or time on the
quiet sky

greetings greetings fellow stargazers
I'm james oberg director this Kika

Silverpop planetarium in Gainesville
Florida

19 reas astronomer for the Cincinnati
Observatory

if you're one of those people who loves
the change in seasons

have you ever wondered whether the sky
changes seasons to

if so stick with us because and this
episode

will let you in on some other secrets at
the season's and how you can

double up your pleasure by not only
watching the face of the earth change

season

but also by watching the face up the
night sky change as well

and will give you a heads up about a
planet star rendezvous that happens

only every other year let's show you EC

all has to do with our Earth's yearly
journey in its orbit around the Sun

because as our earth orbits the Sun
you'll see a slightly different part the

starry sky

each successive evening that is if you
go outside every night after sunset for

a year and look up

you'll notice that the various
constellations slowly but steadily shift

their positions in the heavens a little
bit

West for each night a given star pattern
will first appear low in the east

and then gradually become very prominent
and high up in early evening

and then we'll continue that slow shift
westward

and then completely disappear from the
heavens now

when astronomers talk about sky seasons
they mean that the particular star

patterns

or constellations %uh that season are
those that are high above the horizon in

early evening hours during a given
season for instance

and summer time we know that the great
summer triangle

and the giant scorpion are always very
high and Dominic and early evening

summer skies

and in winter in early evening the giant
a Ryan and his dog

always ride high and dominate winters
landscape

springtime always has its wonderful Leo
the Lion

and the Big Dipper towering over head in
early evening

but there's one season when the sky
becomes quiet

a season when there are fewer bright
stars visible than

any other time of the year and quite
appropriately I think that season is

autumn

the season when earth to is quieting
down a season

muted Sun and muted starlight a season
without social Giants

the season up the soft sky and if you do
what I'm about to show you on

at least one evening in autumn every
autumn for the rest of your life

your add yet another dimension to your
enjoyment and the exquisite fields

that autumn brings simply go outside any
autumn evening just

after the Sun has gone down and look for
the Giants summer scorpion

with his break reddish orange heart star
Antares

as they get ready to set low in the
southwest this year

there's an additional point and white
just above Antares

it's the reddish orange planet Mars
which the Greeks named

Aires their God of War it's commonly
stated that the harder the Scorpion and

Tyrese

was named as the rival varies because
they appear so much alike in the sky

mars passes close to in Terry's roughly
every two years

because in Terry's lies just south on
the path to the plants

this coming Monday September 29 be sure
to catch mars

in a crescent moon in line with the in
Terry's Mars will come back to alignment

with the in Terry's in

August up 20-16 and next time

Saturn will be right there to make it
even bet so be sure to get out and watch

in Terry's

mars and the moon next week watchin
terry's Inmarsat

as the evening goes along then in the
hours before midnight

you'll see for yourself the softer
subscribers with a minimum a bright

stars

a time when you'll be able to delight in
the exquisite beauty up to seven sisters

rising

then around midnight autumn skies will
slowly give way to a preview of winter

as a ride the winter giant boldly rises
in the southeast

how fitting how poetic at the sky
seasons coincidentally match

are Earth's as regular as clockwork

yes every October of your life summer
scorpion will set at sunset

and wenches Orion mall eyes at midnight
and hours in between

will be the power to the slideshow
impressions cell

get outside under the heavens softly and
remember to

keep looking up

well me