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Aurora visible tonight 10/24/11
Check out this image:
Aurora looking north at 10/24/2011 at 10:52 p.m.
According to SpaceWeather.com the earth was hit by a CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) at 2 p.m. eastern time. My thanks go to Sarah Johnson of Greenspire School for giving me the heads up on this. I’ve been busy working on my blog entries for later this week and was oblivious to the outside world.
Bad.
10/24/11 – Ephemeris – The Constellation Aquarius
Monday, October 24th. The sun will rise at 8:09. It’ll be up for 10 hours and 34 minutes, setting at 6:43. The moon, 2 days before new, will rise at 6:41 tomorrow morning. | One of the constellations of the zodiac is in the south southeastern sky at 9 in the evening. It’s the constellation of Aquarius the water bearer. The image that is supposed to be depicted in the stars is that of a hapless fellow spilling a stone jar of water across the sky. Aquarius is fairly hard to spot because it is made of faint stars. One part of him is easy to spot, the Water Jar, an asterism or informal constellation. It’s a distinctive small nearly equilateral triangle of stars with another star in the center. Stars to the right depict the stream of water being spilled. The body of Aquarius is below, a misshapen balloon of stars that is seen above the bright star Fomalhaut, low in the south.
* Times are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan. They may be different for your location.
Addenda
Aquarius as visualized by Cartes du Ciel.
Aquarius as visualized by Stellarium
Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog 