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Monthly Archives: December 2020

Last Full Moon of 2020

Hallelujah!!!

Posted bytexasflashdudeDecember 30, 2020Posted inAstronomy, Big Bend, West Texas8 Comments on Last Full Moon of 2020

The Christmas Star

  Last night was the “grand conjunction” of planets Jupiter and Saturn. The two planets were just .1 degree apart in the sky just after twilight. This is the closest conjunction of these planets since March 5, 1226. The most significant grand conjunction occurred in 7 B.C., and another in 3 B.C. , thus scientificContinue reading “The Christmas Star”

Posted bytexasflashdudeDecember 22, 2020Posted inAstronomy, Big Bend4 Comments on The Christmas Star

Epitaph for Wild

With the coming of the Christmas holiday, and the new year right around the corner, it seems fitting that I share a poem that I wrote 30 years ago about my feelings toward Gaia, or the health of our planet, and where we’re going as caretakers of this marvelous creation. This year of 2020 canContinue reading “Epitaph for Wild”

Posted bytexasflashdudeDecember 21, 2020Posted inPoetry5 Comments on Epitaph for Wild

Gemenids

This year’s Gemenid Meteor Shower did not disappoint. Featuring a projected 103 meteors per hour, there were a few really spectacularly long, bright streaks across the Milky Way. Unfortunately, I was not able to capture those because of timing or camera orientation, but here are a few that did come across my lens on aContinue reading “Gemenids”

Posted bytexasflashdudeDecember 16, 2020December 16, 2020Posted inAstronomy, Big Bend, West Texas2 Comments on Gemenids
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