Ecliptic – Eskildoodle Photos and Feelings

Planetary Parade

The Moon walked slowly along the ecliptic path between Saturn and Venus yesterday. Soon its thin grin will appear in the evening sky leisurely marching by Jupiter and Mars in the west. #moon #venus #saturn #mars #jupiter #ecliptic

Ecliptic Light Parade

Two days ago, August 30, 2024, Jupiter, Mars, and the Moon traced the path of the ecliptic in the early morning sky. The sideways “V” of Taurus can be seen in the upper right of the image and the the stellar pair, Castor and Pollux of Gemini grace the lower left, just above the MoonContinue reading “Ecliptic Light Parade”

Grinning Again

As promised last week (“Vertical Moon” at: https://eskildoodle.com/2023/04/16/vertical-moon/ ), the evening crescent Moon is grinning once again. Just a week ago it appeared nearly vertical as it approached the Sun in the morning sky, but now it appears to lay nearly horizontal like the Cheshire Cat’s grin. The astronomical explanation for this is related toContinue reading “Grinning Again”