This is a scene for the night between August 12 and 13, 2017 (Saturday and Sunday). Image via Guy Ottewell. Used with permission. <\/p>\n
The image above is a scene for the night between August 12 and 13, 2017 (Saturday and Sunday). <\/p>\n
The moon has eight-and-a-half days to go until its new phase the moment, this time, when it will stamp on the sun. <\/p>\n
Each morning from now on, you could see it take one stride (of a bit less than an outstretched handspan) nearer to the sun. So you could each morning be up one hour later to see its dwindling crescent. <\/p>\n
This morning, the Perseid meteors may still be streaking, 10 hours (at the time and place of our picture) after their presumed peak. <\/p>\n
The later strides of the moon toward its appointment with the sun are shown in the detail below, from the sky-scene illustration in The Under-Standing of Eclipses. <\/p>\n
Bottom line: Sky insights and charts from astronomer Guy Ottewell, related to August 21, 2017 eclipse. <\/p>\n
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