Saturday, February 8, 2020

Idle Rambling, Saturday Night, February 8, 2020

This is going to be a huge year for moon-watchers -- not moon-walkers -- but moon-watchers.

Tonight -- a huge snow moon. It will "peak" at 2:33 a.m, early February 9, 2020, but midnight will be just about as "good." Only two more hours.


And it's the fourth-largest for 2020. That means there will be three "bigger" super moons this calendar year.

Which reminds me of a joke making the rounds after Trump's most endearing line coming out of his "victory lap" speech:
“But now we have that gorgeous word, I never thought a word would sound so good. It’s called total acquittal, total acquittal.”
Down here in Texas, we say there are only three kinds of people in the world: those who can count and those who can't.

Back to the skies. Venus has really, really been visible this past week. I'm still amazed that Algore, Occasional-Cortex, St Greta all arrived on the scene just in time to save the earth from humanity. As it is, they almost arrived too late.

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