Darius Bacon ([info]darius) wrote,
@ 2005-08-09 00:53:00
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Walking home this evening, remembering [info]pameladean's Sunday-night astronomy post, I kept an eye out for the moon. To my surprise it wasn't just near a couple of bright planets as she'd reported, it was right spang in between them in a straight line. If you've seen Jupiter in a telescope attended by its moons, you know how this looked, only spread out, tilted, over the western horizon: as if our moon had moons.

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[info]darius
2005-08-09 07:57 am UTC (link)
(I think one of the planets actually must have been Jupiter, from the brightness -- the other being obviously Venus -- leading to the obvious line about fleas ad infinitum...)

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[info]funos
2005-08-09 11:27 am UTC (link)
lotsa bodies on the ecliptic is awesome to see.

fleas?

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[info]darius
2005-08-09 07:19 pm UTC (link)
Yeah -- I don't think I've seen the moon exactly on the ecliptic before when near several planets. It's also in early crescent phase and the distances to either side were in roughly the golden ratio, I think -- really striking.

fleas: the Jonathan Swift ditty about Leeuwenhoek: http://www.med.unifi.it/didonline/anno-II/microbiologia/MaterialeIllustrativo/antony_van_leeuwenhoek.htm

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[info]funos
2005-08-09 07:28 pm UTC (link)
Ah! That ditty about fleas on fleas. :)

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