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trick-or-treating with us sevens
sinister sisters

hey there stargazers I'm demery guess
astronomer for the Cincinnati

Observatory

and I'm James all very director the key
cassava pop planetarium in Gainesville

Florida

we're here to help you find your way
around the sky tonight because Halloween

greeting cards often depict a witch

riding a broom in front of a full moon
many people have the mistaken notion

that there's a full moon

every year at Halloween when in fact we
won't have a full moon on Halloween

again

until 2020 this Halloween the gibbous
moon

will be trick-or-treating in the sky
with mars Jupiter and Mercury

but they're is something you can see in
the night sky

every Halloween that is even if tear and
definitely spookier

because every Halloween the plea
eighties the Seven Sisters

fly high across the sky that night let's
show you

okay we're facing East before dawn

and Jupiter and Mercury will be visible
Jupiter will be very bright

and you can use the Big Dipper to are
tart terrace and then march

onto mercury then look south west about
an hour after sunset Monday night the 27

four days before Halloween

first thing you'll notice is a young
crescent moon

there's not enough time for the moon to
reach the four-phase before Halloween

so no full moon for the which to fly
across this year

just Simmons left you'll see the bright
reddish orange planet Mars

marceau remain low in the southwest
evening sky for the rest of the year

as earth leaves mars farther and farther
behind as we both

orbit the Sun let's advance one day and
the moonwalk fatten up a bit

and move above Mars on Tuesday evening
let's go one more day to wednesday

evening

the moon's a bit fatter and a bit
farther from mars

Thursday night the moon is waxing more
and has moved farther

East notice how much the moon moves from
one night to the next

Friday night Halloween the moon is still
a long way from fall

but they're is a hollow weenie object in
this evening sky

let's turn and look northeast and a plea
eighties are just rising but wire the

plea eighties and Halloween LinkedIn so
many people's minds

let's quote Jack Horkheimer on this one

too many people long ago when the please
reach their highest point at midnight

it was a signal that this was the time
of the year two honor the debt

many people's belief that a great inch
in Cataclysm occurred when the pleadings

were overhead at midnight such as the
great biblical flood

or the thinking about lantus the belief
was so widespread that in mexico

the Pyramid of the Sun tayo t work was
built to align with the setting up the

plea eighties

as we're all the city's West running
streets an ancient Greece

several temples were lined up with the
rising and setting up the Seven Sisters

the Aztec and Mayan not only believe
that the world would come to an and on

one of these plea eighties overhead at
midnight nights

but we're convinced that the world had
already been destroyed

and recreated four times on just such a
night

should we rename them the seven sinister
sisters

although the plate is no longer reach
their highest point

that is calm in a exactly at midnight on
Halloween

as they did in 1000 BC nevertheless

they're still very high in the southeast
every Halloween at midnight

as a modern reminder that ancestors were
deeply moved

and affected by the cosmos and use many

cosmic coincidence is to determine
important religious

in ceremonial events in their life and
for what we can see this year

get outside and look up after sunset at
the young Mounir mars next week

and get outside this Halloween or any
Halloween at midnight

look high and East for the beautiful
cluster stars

known as the pleats and the Seven
Sisters or

as Jack like to call my Halloween the
seventh sinister sisters

and as you look at them remind yourself
that these same stars

have been seen by thousands and
generations we've gone before us

use all them as very important in
determining their own special days of

the year

when the honor their day and although it
might be a bit creepy

don't you agree that seven sisters at
midnight or even better than

performing Halloween I mean seven which
is before midnight

keep looking up

way

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