The impending conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter is very cool. This is what it looked like last night through the eyes of my SkyView Light app.
We had a wide open view over a corn field and it was below the Big Dipper, and slightly left, about a fist or two above the horizon at arm’s length at about 9:45.
Depending on the skies, we might try to find a better location this evening. Maybe
Falling Branch Brewery. I think they are open until 9 and maybe they’ll let us stay on the farm until 10.
Took a 20 minute drive to Mappy land to see the comet and the ISS pass over. ISS seemed so close! Crappy picture of course, but here’s the comet through my iPhone.
We are the same age. I was working on a golf course that summer doing a lot of weed whacking. Fortunately, by mid-summer, I got trusted to be the sprinkler guy. The automated system didn’t work so I drove around a golf cart with a hex drive turning on and off fairway sprinklers while my buddies cursed me doing the grunt work. They’d find golf balls in the tall weeds and then I’d sell them at the tees so we could out to Chesapeake Bay Seafood House for ayce crab legs and crappy Stroh’s beer.
Good times.
I got under the better parts of that isolated shower last hour and picked up a welcomed .09” of rain.
Absolutely. It’s pretty amazing how much the catalytic converter changed auto emissions.
We are hoping to get to Stumptown Ales in the afternoon. I don’t know what time they open, and I don’t know how long we will hang out before heading home, but maybe see you for a beer.
Davis,WV, is part of this forum so I’m putting this here. We took some wine, crackers, pepperoni, and cheese up to the ridge this evening and watched this storm build. Looking forward to seeing @jonjon tomorrow and picking up some beers.