Stars in sunlit sky
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Looking South-Southeast in Late Morning (Visualization Only!)
People often ask if stars are up there, beyond our blue sky, during
the day. The answer is surely yes, because Earth is a planet in
space, surrounded on all sides by stars. Heres a view looking
south-southeast at 11 a.m. this morning. At that time, the sun is
nearly at its highest point in its arc across todays sky. Notice
the many stars, whose constellations are marked, drowned from view
by the suns light. Please don't try to find this in the sky, as
you won't see it at this time! It is very dangerous to look
directly at the sun without proper protection. By the way, the
constellation behind the sun around now is Aquarius the Water
Bearer. But will astrologers say that babies born today are of this
sign? No judgments intended, but the sky doesnt always
correspond with the charts of astrologers. In the real sky, the sun
moves each year within the boundaries of the constellation Aquarius
between February 16 and March 12. And the other constellations up
during the day today are the same ones, in the same relationship to
each other, that you will see at approximatelyv11 P.M. six months
from now . . . when Earth has moved halfway around in its orbit of
the sun . . . and our night sky, not our daytime sky, is pointing
out on this region of the galaxy. By the way, if you have been
dazzled by a very bright star in the east at dawn -- its the
planet Venus.
