Saturday: Mercury and Venus are low on the west-northwestern horizon right after sunset. Venus is the brighter of the two. Mercury is a fist to the left of Venus at 9:10 p.m. The star Regulus is ...
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Saturday: Tonight’s full moon is in the constellation Sagittarius. The Wishram, Haida, and Tlingit people of the Pacific Northwest call the July full moon the salmon moon. This is the time of y...
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Saturday: You can see some stars during the day with a small telescope or binoculars. The best candidate today is Spica because it is so close to the moon in the sky. First find the moon, due sou...
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Saturday: Let’s learn about Capella. It is the fourth brightest star we can see in Ellensburg. It is the most northerly bright star. It is a binary star consisting of two yellow giant stars tha...
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Saturday: Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so stars in the region visible to the naked eye became many more. T...
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Saturday: “Mom, I can’t sleep. It is too light out!” A poor excuse you say. Good astronomy skills, I say. The latest sunset of the year happens around this date. Surprisingly, the earliest ...
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CWU graduation is this weekend. Your favorite graduate deserves a gift. Why not get her, him, or them a star? I don’t mean from one of those organizations that offer to “register the name of ...
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Saturday: You know Metis and Thebe and Adrastea and Amalthea. Io and Ganymede and Callisto and Europa. But do you recall? There are 95 Jovian moons in all. Just 60 years ago, Jupiter was thought ...
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Saturday: Cygnus the swan flies tonight. Deneb, the brightest star in the constellation, whose name means “tail” in Arabic, is two and a half fists held upright and at arm’s length above du...
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Saturday: The asteroid 2 Pallas is in opposition tonight. That doesn’t mean the asteroid is spending the night saying, “no.” That means tonight is the best night of the year to observe Pall...
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Saturday: Today is a great day to Get Intimate… Get Intimate with the Shrub-Steppe. This annual event put on by the Kittitas Environmental Education Network includes many outdoor educational ac...
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Saturday: The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks just before dawn this weekend. Since this meteor shower has a broad peak range, you should start looking before dawn every morning this week. The moo...
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Saturday: The Globe at Night May campaign starts today. Globe at night is a citizen science project to quantify the impact of light pollution on our view of the night sky. Go to https://globeatni...
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Saturday: In the 1979 hit song, The Devil Went Down to Georgia. This week, the Devil Comet is going down to the west-northwestern horizon just after sunset. Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which gained th...
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Saturday: International Dark Sky Week was earlier this month. But that doesn’t mean that we can ignore our obligation to minimize stray light for the other 51 weeks. Lights that are aimed upw...
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Saturday: Jupiter is one and a half fists above the western horizon at 8:30 p.m. Sunday: Astronomers are often fascinated with large objects. Planets that could hold 1000 Earths (Jupiter). Star...
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Saturday: Many artists have sung the song “Blue Moon”. But few have sung the song “Blue Planet”. It goes, in part “Blue Planet, you saw me standing with 28 others. Rolling around like a...
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Saturday: Did you get binoculars for the holidays? Like Celebrate Scientists Day or Science Education Day (both March 14) If so, start using them on some of the easy to find binocular targets f...
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Saturday: Ask someone which day in March has the same duration day and night. Go ahead, ask someone. Why are you still reading this? I can wait. If that person said the first day of spring, the...
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Saturday: Don't forget to set your clocks ahead one hour tonight for the annual ritual called daylight savings. Daylight savings originated in the United States during World War I to save energ...
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Saturday: Tonight is a great night to look for the Big Dipper. Tomorrow will be a great night to look for the Big Dipper. In fact, every night for many centuries will be great nights to look for ...
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Saturday: February’s full moon is known as the Snow Moon. That name may have been appropriate when I was younger and living in Minnesota. But with human influenced climate change, many northern...
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Saturday: On February 18, 1930, Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto, at that time classified as the ninth planet. However, as astronomers started discovering a lot of similar objects in that part of ...
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Saturday: Saturn is about one finger width to the upper right of the moon at 6:00 p.m. They are about a half a fist held upright and at arm’s length above the west-southwestern horizon. Sunda...
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Saturday: Let’s review three important sets of three cats. There’s Josie, Valerie, and Melody of Josie and the Pussycats. Felix, Tom, and Sylvester from old time cartoons. And, if you want to...
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