Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Nightly Observations: 4.1

The night sky of late, has been rather dismal for viewing the celestial objects above. For some reason, the weather has just been quite foggy and cloudy a lot, which makes viewing the sky very hard. This toughness in viewing the sky, is further exacerbated by the fact that this month we have not been given any Evening Sky Maps, which would aid me in identifying the celestial objects which I see overhead. Thus, the depth and intelligence of my observations is severely hindered. Nonetheless I shall make do! The Moon itself recently, has been extremely bright and clear, especially considering that it is approaching its fullest phase. The brightness is a sharp contrast to the number of rather dull stars that are currently visible. While I had heard that the Spring sky is the dullest of all the seasons, there are definitely still many stars to see and look at, and which would surely be of great interest, were I able to identify them. I will note that there are mostly stars that appear to be blue, while there is one overhead that is reddish. This may be a planet overhead, and just normal stars that are blue.

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