Mercury's Visible!

March is a magical month! 

This was the western sky, shortly after sunset, as captured by iPhone. In the upper right is planet Venus. Below Venus, to the left, and just above the tree, is planet Mercury! So hard to see Mercury! 

The Moon is magical too. We’re at maximum lunar standstill. Declination is more than +28 degrees now. Very far north. In a couple of weeks the Moon will reach maximum southern standstill of this cycle AND we’ll have a lunar eclipse too!

Evening of March 6th.

Evening of March 7th.

Just A Suggestion, And It's Off To 1984 Nostalgia Land

Sometimes it takes very little to push me down a vortex of nostalgia. I notice that University of Arizona is asking for stories for an oral history project. Bang! It's 1984!

 

Stand Up For Science Protest, California State Capitol, March 7, 2025

I arrived a bit late - 2:20 p.m.