Fired up for next week’s rare and wonderful transit of Venus

Splashdown! The SpaceX Dragon cargo ship landed at departed the space station earlier this morning and landed safely in the Pacific Ocean off Baja California some 560 miles south of Los Angeles 10:42 a.m. CDT. Once recovered by ships at … Continue reading →

The moon will be in conjunction with the Saturn and Spica duo tonight. The view shows the sky at nightfall facing south. Created with Stellarium
Splashdown! The SpaceX Dragon cargo ship landed at departed the space station earlier this morning and landed safely in the Pacific Ocean off Baja California some 560 miles south of Los Angeles 10:42 a.m. CDT. Once recovered by ships at sea, the capsule will be retrieved and the scientific equipment packed away by the astronauts removed. Nice to see the mission end as successfully as it began.
Tonight be sure to watch a very cool conjunction of the gibbous moon, Spica and Saturn. The three gather routinely once a month in different configurations as the moon rolls by, but this time they’ll be in a straight line one under the other around 10 p.m. CDT.
Venus in transit near the edge of the sun's disk during the June 8, 2004 transit. ...