Explanation: This week's ongoing conjunction of Venus and Jupiter may have whetted your appetite for skygazing. Tonight is the main course though. On November 28, a young crescent Moon will join them posing next to the two bright planets above the western horizon at twilight. Much like tonight's visual feast, this night skyscape shows a young lunar crescent and brilliant Venus in the western evening twilight on October 29. The celestial beacons are setting over distant mountains and the Minya monastery, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China, planet Earth. Then Mercury, not Jupiter, was a celestial companion to Venus and the Moon. The fleeting innermost planet is just visible here in the bright twilight, below and left of Venus and near the center of the frame. Tomorrow, November 29, the crescent Moon will also help you spot planet Saturn for desert.
Re: APOD: Moon and Planets at Twilight (2019 Nov 28)
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2019 6:38 am
by Ann
APOD Robot wrote:
Tomorrow, November 29, the crescent Moon will also help you spot planet Saturn for desert.
Surely you don't mean "desert" as in, say, Sahara? Surely you mean dessert, like in a big slice of cake or an ice cream sundae? Or as a last, satisfying observation of your sky watching session by capturing a glimpse of the majestic ringed planet?
Ann
Re: APOD: Moon and Planets at Twilight (2019 Nov 28)
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2019 7:31 am
by Boomer12k
Interesting image...and great trio of objects... ummm... what is the bright object just above the clouds to the left of Venus then???
We are socked in...rather wet now...
Save some sand for me....er.... PIE... I mean...
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APOD Robot wrote:
Tomorrow, November 29, the crescent Moon will also help you spot planet Saturn for desert.
Surely you don't mean "desert" as in, say, Sahara?
Surely you mean dessert, like in a big slice of cake or an ice cream sundae?
It may all depend on how "whetted your appetite" is.
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=desert wrote:
desert (n.2) c. 1300, "fact of deserving a certain treatment (for good or ill) for one's behavior," from Old French deserte "merit, recompense," noun use of past participle of deservir "be worthy to have," ultimately from Latin deservire "serve well," from de- "completely" (see de-) + servire "to serve". Meaning "suitable reward or punishment, what one deserves" (now usually plural and with just), is from late 14c.
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dessert (n.) "a service of fruits and sweets at the close of a meal," c. 1600, from Middle French dessert (mid-16c.) "last course," literally "removal of what has been served," from desservir "clear the table," literally "un-serve," from des- "remove, undo" + Old French servir "to serve".
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desert (n.1) "wasteland, wilderness, barren area," wooded or not, c. 1200, from Old French desert (12c.) "desert, wilderness, wasteland; destruction, ruin" and directly from Late Latin desertum (source of Italian diserto, Old Provençal dezert, Spanish desierto), literally "thing abandoned" (used in Vulgate to translate "wilderness"), noun use of neuter past participle of Latin deserere "forsake".
Re: APOD: Moon and Planets at Twilight (2019 Nov 28)
A sandwich, that's it! (So what's the "wich" of the sandwich?)
Ann
Re: APOD: Moon and Planets at Twilight (2019 Nov 28)
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2019 2:07 pm
by Chris Peterson
Boomer12k wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2019 7:31 am
Interesting image...and great trio of objects... ummm... what is the bright object just above the clouds to the left of Venus then???
Jupiter.
Re: APOD: Moon and Planets at Twilight (2019 Nov 28)
Boomer12k wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2019 7:31 am
Interesting image...and great trio of objects... ummm... what is the bright object just above the clouds to the left of Venus then???
Jupiter.
Actually it is δ Sco, mag 2.4. Jupiter is about 17° out of the field of view to the upper left.
Re: APOD: Moon and Planets at Twilight (2019 Nov 28)
Boomer12k wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2019 7:31 am
Interesting image...and great trio of objects... ummm... what is the bright object just above the clouds to the left of Venus then???
Jupiter.
Actually it is δ Sco, mag 2.4. Jupiter is about 17° out of the field of view to the upper left.
I agree. That looks about right.
Re: APOD: Moon and Planets at Twilight (2019 Nov 28)
Actually it is δ Sco, mag 2.4. Jupiter is about 17° out of the field of view to the upper left.
I agree. That looks about right.
Thanks to the both of you... Happy TG.
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Just deserts: Dschubba Gump shrimp
Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2019 12:50 pm
by neufer
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
APOD Robot wrote:
Tomorrow, November 29, the crescent Moon will also help you spot planet Saturn for desert.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Scorpii wrote:
<<Dschubba (δ Scorpii A) is a Gamma Cassiopeiae variable star. This type of star shows irregular slow brightness variations of a few hundredths of a magnitude due to a disc of material spun off by the rapidly rotating star.
In 1981 Dschubba (δ Sco) was occulted by Saturn's rings as seen by Voyager 2, with starlight unexpectedly blocked even by the apparently empty gaps, indicating that "there is very little empty space anywhere in the main ring system.">>
Moon and Planets at Twilight
Hmmm; which was it?