Brad Snowder @Skywise@octodon.social

Now's the time to see M30 in Capricornus cuz you tried in March staying up all night but it disappeared in the dawn so you gave up and went to IHOb.

Mars looks amazing in a telescope when it gets close to earth but then the dust storms start and you can't see shit so you switch to Jupiter.

Recent discoveries reveal there were massive raving hoedowns around early Stonehenge. Parties, concerts, parades, flea markets, costume competitions possibly, sack races maybe, and definitely a first class food court. There are still some lovely pubs in the nearby villages.

I figure humans have always survived and thrived thanks to a small percentage of logical and inquisitive science-types, without whom we would still be trying to make fire, probably by praying two sticks together.

Modern calculations show that it would have taken 500 men using leather ropes to line up the big stones at Stonehenge. Meanwhile unheralded women probably did the math.

A day's walk from Stonehenge is Woodhenge, made of logs which have decayed away. Met a witch there one foggy morning & she told me she was channeling ancient energy emanating from a triangle whose vertices are Woodhenge, Stonehenge, and the Space Needle in Seattle. #TrueStory

Even back when the Romans were looking for more stuff to steal, and establishing their northernmost outposts in an effort to bring palatable cuisine to the Brits, even then Stonehenge was an ancient mystery.

The water hoses on our washing machine are color coded, red for hot and blue for cold. As an astronomer I'm tempted to switch them.

Remember, Right Ascension is the hour angle measured east from the vernal equinox. Don't confusion it with the autumnal equinox, that would be Wrong Ascension.

Newton "stood on the shoulders of giants" but then he was only five foot six.

Two students handed in answers to the unit 9 questions and the work is beautiful. Each question nicely copied from the class website with detailed answers in indented paragraphs underneath. Only one problem. I haven't yet created and posted any questions for unit 9 on the website.

The star on the end of the Little Dipper is The North Star, The Chief of Stars, Guide of My People, The One Who Does Not Care To Go Jogging.

The dawning of the age of Aquarius will last several hundred more years but then apparently after that there will be peace and understanding.

Gemini is setting and my moon is in Levis.

In the early 1800's Caroline Herschel made a map of the Universe which looked like a cake with the frosting licked off and everyone agreed it was the best theory ever.

The terrorists have won.

We are part star dust and part big bang smithereens.

Without Ptolemy's maps Gemini might have become the Olsen twins. Virgo might be Madonna.

Newtonian Schmootonian.
Cassegrain Schmassigrain.
Schmidt Schmidt.

Hubble explained the Universe is getting bigger and everyone freaked out when they realized this is true but we have never really gotten over it.