AstroWatch
July 5: Venus And The Pleiades (AM)
Just as Mars passed the Beehive cluster back in April, so Venus is now passing the Pleiades in the morning sky. Unfortunately, with a gap of just slightly more than six and a half degrees between them, the pair won’t fit within the same 10x50 binocular field of view, and you’ll need to use lower powered binoculars if you’d like a close view of them together.
You’ll also want to rise a little early - probably around 90 minutes before dawn - as the sky will need to be dark enough for the cluster to be easily visible. And like many of the other sights described here, this is a good opportunity to capture an image of the two together.
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"This is not a book that should be set aside lightly - it should be flung with great force.”
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“You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.”
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“All people are born alike... except Republicans and Democrats.”
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“Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does”
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“If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.”
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“I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.”
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“Here's to our wives and girlfriends...may they never meet!”
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“She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.”
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“Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.”
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“I have nothing but respect for you -- and not much of that.”
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“He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.”
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“I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.”
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There are too many masters of this genre that I don't dare come up with originals at this late hour--hope everybody had a happy Fourth! Instead, I'll quote some of the masters, premiere of which is #GrouchoMarx.
“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
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Lordy. If anything shows me the trouble I've got with muscles and balance #post-stroke and in #recovery, it's getting back on my #skateboard !!
Damn. I can cruise around. But flip tricks ? #nope.
I was never one for throwing it down like some guys and going hell for leather. But simple ollie? Casper flip? Damn. Least I'm out having a go.
That's called #activerecovery or something. 37 mile bike ride is easy. This shit right here?? Fine balance skills and vestibular input? Oooph.
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It's good, it's sweet, it's fine and IT'S ALL MINE!!
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#July4 #superspreader
Started off today boosting Plague Poems --indeed, I anticipate that public gatherings, even outside, are going to result in closely-packed unmask crowds because, well, it's outside, and 6 foot distance doesn't account for who is downwind from whom. Big question, too, is whether or not old COVID rules even apply because the current dominant variant is NB 1.8.1 and there are lots other non-dominant variants thanks to all you unmasked mutant farms roaming around out there.
Happy Fourth.
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...He takes me deep-sea fishing in a submarine
We got to drive-in movies in a limousine
He's got a whirly-birdy and a twelve-foot yacht
Ah, but that's-a not all he's got!
He's got tan shoes with pink shoelaces
A polka dot vest and man, oh, man
He wears tan shoes with pink shoelaces
And a big Panama with a purple hat band
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Half a league, half a league, half a league my ass.
Gimme the whole league.
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More! More! More!
That's how I like it, that's how I like it!
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♲ @wist@my-place.social:A quotation from Omar KhayyamIf I were God, I would not wait the years
To solve the mystery of human tears;
And, unambiguous, I would speak my will,
Nor hint it darkly to the dreaming seers.
Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات ][tr. Le Gallienne (1897), # 116]Sourcing, notes: wist.info/omar-khayyam/77325/
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♲ @strangerthanfiction@diaspora.glasswings.com:another video worth watching—I had no ideaJoshua Clark Davis: "Zohran Mamdani recalling how his father was brutalized and arrested by Montgomery police at a SNCC protest against segregationists in 1965." — Bluesky
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I don't recall your number, so I can't look up your name.
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Whooooo are you?
Who who
Who who?
I forgot.
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in reply to plan-A • — (Proud Eskimo!) •Once you get it is a cycle, you'll get over it. But this one could mean salvation.
Our solar year and Gregorian time manipulation is far ahead real date we are now.\
We are 85.8 years later only phasing Moon.
Not 1 Hundred 20's later..>> look for yaself.
Why does that matter?... find out.