Tuesday, September 29, 2015

September 29


Mornings are equally beautiful, in the stillness of the pre-dawn when the sky is clear.

Orion is well overhead nearly, perhaps 10 degrees below meridian at 4:00 in the morning, sitting upward in the southern sky. It’s so dark now, that the Orion nebula appears within his sword, barely a fuzzy patch of white against the coal black background.

Jupiter continues to progress ever counter-clockwise, retrograde notwithstanding. It has moved closer to the twins and will reside nearby for the next year. This patch of sky is beautiful now, with Sirius and Jupiter, Orion and Aldeberan, the Hyades and the Pleides all so close together.

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