Today is Astronomy Day. So, go outside and look at the sky tonight!

[KGIII]

Astronomy Day Fact Sheet - Astronomical League

Fact Sheet Astronomy Day is a grass roots movement designed to share the joy of astronomy with the general population - "Bringing Astronomy to the People." On Astronomy Day, thousands of people who have never looked through a telescope will have an opportunity to see first-hand what has so many...

www.astroleague.org

 

[Deleted member 101831]

Look Up At The Night Sky (May 2021)

There's lots of events happening in the night sky this month, including a meteor shower, and a Supermoon lunar eclipse! We have the dates and times so you don't miss a thing!

www.farmersalmanac.com

 

[KGIII]

I went out for a little while earlier. It was pretty cloudy, so there wasn't a whole lot to see.

I also forgot to include a link to a wonderfully interesting piece of software.

Stellarium Astronomy Software

Stellarium is a planetarium software that shows exactly what you see when you look up at the stars. It's easy to use, and free.

stellarium.org

(It may be in your repos.)

 

[Deleted member 101831]

Yep Stellarium is cool have used it for quite awhile and yes it's in the repos of most Linux distros I've run.

 

[stan]

A view seen by only 24 humans. This photo from Dec. 17, 1972 (Apollo 17) was featured on Astronomy Picture of the Day. This is my current desktop background.

Stellarium is awesome. I've used it for years.

 

[KGIII]

Yep Stellarium is cool have used it for quite awhile and yes it's in the repos of most Linux distros I've run.

It's a fun application.

A view seen by only 24 humans.

It reminds me of how small and insignificant we humans are, and how precious our resources are to us. I remember when we first landed on the moon, barely...

 

[Nik-Ken-Bah]

when we first landed on the moon

The day that Armstrong kicked lunar dust I was a first year fitter and Machinist ( Millwright for you Americans and Canadians) and I was at a Technical college to learn the academic side of my craft.
Astronomy and Cosmology are a couple distractions in my life so I don't go round the twist.

 

[KGIII]

The day that Armstrong kicked lunar dust I was a first year fitter and Machinist ( Millwright for you Americans and Canadians)

I was still fairly young. I wasn't hatched until '57.

 

[Nik-Ken-Bah]

I wasn't hatched until '57.

The same year as my younger brother, who we lost two years later.

 

[KGIII]

I wasn't sure if I should click 'like' on that one...

 

[Nik-Ken-Bah]

click 'like' on that one...

That is OK. Just a fact of life, he is not gone as the memory of him is still with me. Just like the memory of a girl that was lost the same year as my brother.

 

[KGIII]

I wasn't born until just about the last possible day of 1957, so I missed most of that year.

I'm trying to find the time to finish my 'official Lubuntu' membership application. It's a formality, with a few perks on the other side. It's fighting me at every turn.