Space Geek Report



Clear skies again tonight and I topped my previous feat by viewing the ancient astronomical perfecta all in the telescope:

Mercury rapidly disappearing into the sunset

Venus as high and bright as it ever gets, en route to the June 8 transit, passing right by the Pleiades for a couple days (got them both in the same field of view)

Mars, much much faded from the glory of last summer

Jupiter, with three Galilean moons on one side and one on the other

Saturn, with the air still enough for me to maybe make out the rings (my eyes are getting worse!)

The Moon at waxing gibbous, with really nice relief on the big craters of the southern hemisphere



Then I topped the ancients an hour later by checking out a space station pass.



The scientific evidence from these observations is that I'm a bigger space geek than I thought.