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Welcome to summer
By JAMES HILL
Thu,06/29/23-3:15PM , 734 Reads
Why do we have summer? On June 21 the Sun rose in the northeast and was within 10 degrees of straight overhead at its highest. (At 1 PM daylight savings time.) When the Sun went down in the northwest on June 21 it had been in the sky for almost 14 ½ hours. The longest day of the year.
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Requiem for a Sister Planet
By JAMES HILL - Our Cosmic Neighborhood
Thu,06/22/23-11:00AM , 803 Reads
Venus is a beautiful sight in the western sky as twilight descends. One evening this coming week consider setting a chair outside where you can quietly contemplate our nearest neighbor planet and consider a bit of its history and fate. Unfortunately, sometimes a story doesn’t seem to have a happy ending.
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More spring constellations to find
By JAMES HILL - Our Cosmic Neighborhood
Thu,06/08/23-8:00AM , 1,048 Reads
One of the things magical about the spring is the appearance of new “lights-in-the-sky” at dusk. Many of the foreign students in my Ole Miss astronomy classes had never seen fireflies (or lightning bugs). They added to our outdoor observing sessions in June. I had heard that sometimes they would start flashing together, but I had never seen it.
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Arc to Arcturus and Speed to Spica
By JAMES HILL - Our Cosmic Neighborhood
Thu,06/01/23-9:30PM , 1,779 Reads
As we approach the summer solstice on June 21, you’ll notice that the Sun is almost at its highest at noon. Thanks to daylight saving time you’ll have to wait longer to see the stars. By nine o’clock you should be able to put on some bug spray, get away from street lights, and let your eyes become dark adapted, and enjoy the view.
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