Sunday, September 19, 2010

Observing the Moon

Last night was International Observe the Moon night, and in celebration, I observed the Moon!

It was a grand evening with a guest list of about 50 folks, including movers and shakers of Greensboro (a former mayor was there!)

We looked at the waxing gibbous and talked about distance and American flags and a variety of other related and unrelated topics.

We took a peek at Albireo and spoke of color, temperature and mass.

Finally the giant of planets, Jupiter, rose above the trees and we spied the 4 Galilean moons.

Hope you got to look at the Moon last night. We saw 5.

If you missed it, tonight is not too late.

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