Darkness opens up the view
The clock jumped back an hour this weekend and dusk has begun creeping ever closer to the afternoon. The end of our European Summer Time, but the beginning, again, of long nights spent gazing skywards. No better time, then to relaunch ‘Right Ascension’ — a temporary blog I ran during the International Year of Astronomy (2009) and which some kind friends claimed to have missed ever since.
I’ll be posting here on Medium.com as the platform of choice, and sprinkling news of interesting things to observe over more extended articles on key topics in astronomy and astrophysics.
In the meantime, I’ll leave you with your first observing goal. Nov 2nd, just after sunset look to the south-west and you should be able to see Venus, Saturn and a crescent Moon. Go on, see if you can spot them.
