Mars sets

Moon tries to set, tree won't let

6:40 to 6:44 am. Looking south west.

Declination +22d 31m 14s

4:43 - 4:56 pm.

The sun will reach its most northern point on the 21st as the tilt of the Earth reaches maximum declination of +23d 26m 16s.

New moon sunset 2

5:32 - 6:34pm.

New moon sunset 1

5:50pm. What's this?

Bother and damnation! Slipping out of sight too fast.

Venus rising brightly

Bank acquires moon

It is the morning after the night of the October full moon.

4:52 am


A funny thing happened on the way to the horizon at 4:56am.

Totally caged! I see now the true purpose of the adornment atop the Deutsche Bank building.

4:57 am.

4:58 am.

Planetary 2

Julian date 245474, from the Texas Observatory

Stellarium is set to southern hemisphere observation so the point of view is opposite to that of the previous image.

Planetary distances

I found a current time solar system plotter at the Texas A&M Astronomical Observatory.

Mercury was just visible to the average digital ccd in the photos of 9 September 2008. It is less than 62 million miles away from Earth. The map from the SSP plotter confirms the three planets are lined up for our viewing pleasure.

In short,

Sun, 93.000307 million miles, 8.333 minutes light time (one way)

Mercury, 61.165 million miles, 5.446 minutes light time 

Venus, 127 million miles, 11.41 mins light time

Mars, 231.16 million miles, 20.666 mins light time

Jupiter, 465.57567 million miles, 41.6333 mins light time

Saturn, 951.729 million miles, 1hr 25 mins light time

Neptune, 2732 million miles, 4.07194 hours light time

New moon and Venus

Venus is exceptionally bright tonight in the gathering gloom. The new moon is bronzed by the nearly vanished sunset.

6:28pm in the west.

 

6:29pm

 

 

6:30pm

 

 

  

 

Jupiter

Jupiter stands out brightly in the otherwise unseeing city sky.