Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 22, 2023 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 ■ First-quarter Moon (exact at 11:29 p.m. EDT). ■ The shadow of Jupiter’s fast-moving moon Io crosses onto the eastern edge of Jupiter’s face at 8:07 p.m. EDT, followed closely by Io itself 20 minutes later. Jupiter’s Red Spot should transit the planet’s central […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 18, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Oct. 15, 2023 marked the 20th anniversary of China’s first manned spaceflight, the Shenzhou-5 mission that saw former People’s Liberation Army Air Force Shenyang J-6 fighter pilot Yang Liwei orbit the Earth 14 times in 21 hours before landing. But for a Chinese Communist Party […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 16, 2023, 2023 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15 ■ Now that it’s mid-October, Deneb has replaced Vega as the zenith star after nightfall (for skywatchers at mid-northern latitudes). MONDAY, OCTOBER 16 ■ The Great Square of Pegasus is now high in the east-southeast after dark. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17 ■ Look for bright Capella […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 10, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher It took much Chinese persuading but by 2020 to 2021 it was becoming increasingly clear that Russia was ready to dump its space partnership with the United States and Western space agencies for a new partnership with China. Space cooperation between the former Cold War […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 8, 2023, 2023 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 ■ Arcturus shines in the west as twilight fades away. Capella, equally bright, is rising in the north-northeast (depending on your latitude; the farther north you live the higher it will be.) They’re both magnitude 0. Higher above Fomalhaut glows Saturn, pale […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 3, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Sometimes the second, sometimes the first richest man on Earth according to open reports, Elon Musk owns about 54 percent of SpaceX Corporation stock, which works out to about $17.2 billion and 13 percent of his Tesla electric car company, which works out to about […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 3, 2023 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1 ■ The waning gibbous Moon rises in the east-northeast around the end of twilight. Ten or fifteen minutes later, Jupiter rises just 2° or 3° to the Moon’s lower right. Later in the evening the two shine high, as shown below. These are currently […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 27, 2023 COSMIC VIEW Today’s headline: Analyst: Taiwan central to CCP’s celestial strategy for global hegemony Does the average U.S. president envision his nation ruling over not only the planet but the solar system long after he or she has died? China’s Xi Jinping thinks in such fashion according to one […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 24, 2023 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 ■ High above the Moon this evening, by 3 or 4 fists at arm’s length, shines Altair, the southernmost star of the Summer Triangle. The other two, Vega and lesser Deneb, are nearly overhead. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 ■ By 10 or 11 p.m. bright Jupiter […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 19, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Ideology matters in the Chinese-led International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) Moon coalition, with China agreeing to take an astronaut to the Moon from member dictatorship Venezuela, and with the Sept. 1 admission of South Africa, a leftist pro-China state which in 2024 will see 30 […]
