Childhoods’ End by Arthur C. Clarke June 21, 2007
Posted by webmaster in : Great Science Fiction Novels , 1 comment so farChildhoods’ End covers a broad swath of human history. Like Rendezvous with Rama it covers one of sci-fi’s most hollowed (or hackneyed?) themes; first contact with extraterrestials. (more…)
Viewing a Low Altitude Occultation
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Daytime Moon & Venus. Photo by Author.
This past Thursday, I got an e-mail from Sky & Telescopes’ automated alert system; Monday, the 18th of June, there would be an occultation of Venus by the Moon visible from extreme northern New England and the Canadian Maritimes. This occultation would also span the Atlantic, Europe, and into Asia, but would be especially difficult to spot from the continental US (what we in the miltary refer to as ConUS) due to its extremely low elevation in the day time sky.