English: Pleiades Star Cluster (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
While this is a book and writing blog, every so often I feel a need to share my other love, astronomy. Guess you could say one could write about any subject under the sun.
If you’re a morning lark (I am definitely not, unfortunately), on your way out for the morning paper about 30 minutes before sunrise, glance at the sky to the east-northeast.
The Moon will be an eyelash-thin crescent, around mid-June. Tomorrow morning (17th), the planet Jupiter is just to the right of the Moon. It will look as if the crescent Moon can reach out and grab Jupiter.
Also on Sunday morning, the Pleides, a star cluster, is directly above the Moon.
The inner planet Venus is just above the horizon.
In the evenings in the latter half of June, about 45 minutes after sunset, look towards the west-northwest. On the 21st and after, the Moon is visible now instead of mornings, and will increase in height and size of its crescent. The innermost planet Mercury will be visible low to the horizon.
It’s really cool the way astronomers can predict positions of various objects, and there they are!
