A distinctive difference in the night sky tonight is the position of the Earth's moon relative to the position of the planet Jupiter, from my point of observation.
Last night, the Moon was very bright and the proximity of the planet Jupiter created a competitive air with the observable light of the Galilean moons.
Tonight, the Moon has a more harmonious gap between it and the position of Jupiter in the night sky.
Can you explain why that is?
I *doubt* it.
The reasons are obvious and you will think that it's obvious but it becomes obvious to you only *after* you read it here, assuming you are not too dim-witted to understand my simple explanation.
But the fact is, your monkey-brain does not understand. Because you don't have a 3-dimension mind, and neither did your monkey ancestors from the time of Galileo.
The reason is because the planet Jupiter is relatively motionless in our night sky.
Last night, during my observations, the Moon and Jupiter swept across the sky hardly changing position with each other in the night sky.
The reason is because the Earth's moon is also relatively motionless in the night sky.
Your monkey brain sees it *seem* to move but that is only because the *Earth* is moving.
With each passing minute, the surface of Earth and its infestation of you monkeys is turning away from those objects out there in the night sky.
The Moon revolves around the planet Earth.
The planet Jupiter revolves around the Sun.
The Earth's moon tonight is basically in the same place in the solar system that it was last night.
The Moon has moved since last night but not very much.
The planet Jupiter has not moved very much either since last night, or last week, precisely how much is predictable, using data scientists published long ago.
The present time seems to be the best time to capture images of Jupiter's moons, in terms of their position and being fully visible. I'm not going to fight with my cheap tripod tonight though. The skyandtelescope.com app doesn't present many other good alignments for the next couple days so, I don't know, there's an interesting configuration in a couple days that I might try to capture.
The Earth's position in the solar system won't be again this close to the planet Jupiter until about this time next year, as happens ever year, adjusting for Jupiter's motion around the Sun.
Looking at Solar System Live I see that June, July 2020 will feature the approximate, imperfect alignment of Jupiter and Saturn relative to the Sun. At some point around then there will be a very close alignment of the Earth with the Sun and Jupiter and Saturn. Perhaps others. Pluto's there too.
Jupiter and Saturn should appear very closely together out there in the night sky this time next year.
So don't you monkeys go around telling ANOTHER GODDAMN PERSON YOU KNOW HOW THE UNIVERSE FORMED!
Because you're MONKEYS! You don't know a goddamned thing about the Universe.
You're stupid and dumb and you make other people stupid and dumber.
DSC02146.jpg, Kerry Burgess 06/16/2019 Spokane
DSC02152.jpg, Kerry Burgess 06/18/2019 Spokane
- posted by Kerry Burgess 12:17 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 18 June 2019
