Location: Lower Westside, Saint John, NB, Canada
Date Time: April 2, 2025 2100-2130hrs
Weather: Cool, -0.5C, 39%, no wind, hazy, but mostly clear except for paper plant smoke blowing south-westward across western horizon.
Attendance: Benson and Myself.
Equipment: Canon Rebel with 18-55 & 75-300mm lens.
Objective: Benson and I to observe Jupiter and the Moon.
Report:
- As I was setting up tripod, Benson noticed a deer nearby.
- The Moon and Jupiter were high in the western sky, less than 5 degrees apart.
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| Moon & Jupiter. |
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| Facing West, Sirius, Orion and Jupiter. |
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| Waxing crescent 28% illuminated. |
- Mars was next to Pollux and Castor in Gemini.
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| Procyon lower left Beehive Cluster upper left Mars next to Pollux, upper center left. |
- From Richard Hinckley Allen's "Star Names Their Meaning and Lore"---- Procyon "Alpha, Binary, 0.4 and 13, yellowish white and yellow." "Euphratean scholars identify it with the Kakkab Paldara Pallika, or Palura of the cylinders, the Star of the Crossing of the Water-Dog, a title evidently given with some reference to the River of Heaven, the adjacent Milky Way; and Hommel says that it was the Kak-shisha which the majority of scholars apply to Sirius." Further research leads me to think this means the star which proceeds Sirius. An interesting name for a star that lies in an area of sky rich with amazing constellations and bright stars like Orion, Sirius and the Gemini Twins. An easy star to over-look.
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