{"id":285,"date":"2008-12-31T12:56:34","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T17:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=285"},"modified":"2009-01-05T15:33:19","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T20:33:19","slug":"285","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2008\/12\/285\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I must say, the weather over the last week, has left one to desire it much, except when the sun comes out.\u00a0 From before Christmas we had snow, so we got our White Christmas.\u00a0\u00a0 On Christmas Eve,\u00a0 later in the afternoon, it starts to rain with temperatures rising to +6 overnight, and of course this means the snow is disappearing.\u00a0 On the way to Church on this Christmas eve, in the distance were fireworks.\u00a0 Big bright greens ones brings a smile to may face. No matter how old you are, fireworks are always fun to watch.\u00a0 Off and on over the next few days it would warm up, the snow melts, it gets cool at night.\u00a0\"20081228-08\"<\/A> On Sunday December 28th , Kevin and I go for a walk, its +8C but a wicked little wind. Clouds to the north, a rainbow to the West, and the sun peaking over a cloud front in the East. As we reached the creek, there then appeared a double rainbow, very intense, then it started to rain.\u00a0 \"20081228-10\"<\/A>By the time we went around the loop back to Branch street, the rainbow was diminishing but the rain was still present. By later in the day, the temperatures were starting to plunge back in the double negatives.\u00a0 By Monday the sun had come out, but the wind was peaking up towards 70-90 km gusts, so the radio station states.\u00a0 Me, well I took a book , a blanket, a glass of wine and sat out front to soak up the sun, and at least a daily intake of Vitamin D.\u00a0 The clouds returned, the wind remained, in fact all night, and it was cold.\u00a0 By Tuesday, it was -15C going into work, but clear.\u00a0 I did look out the window in the morning, and did see Cassiopeia and RhoCass, the Dipper and Saturn.\u00a0 That day at lunch, after the running around was done, I managed to view the sun.\u00a0 On the way home at the grocery store, I managed to see Venus and the crescent moon\u00a0 10 degrees apart, but that was soon gobbled up by the encroaching grey\/black snow clouds.<\/p>\n

We were to get snow overnight, and it did not disappoint but only a skiff so far. It was very dark driving in, the roads snow covered, no plows had been out to sand the\u00a0roads, but according the CSC alarm, it was going to clear up and I would be able to\u00a0observe the sun.\u00a0 It cleared indeed, still -12C , high\u00a0haze, but sunny, the telescope and tripod came out of the back of the van, and solar observing I did do.\u00a0 Again no spots, very\u00a0quiet CR2077 and CR2078, but this was a record of\u00a0 three solar observations in a\u00a0row, and this on the\u00a0Eve of a\u00a0New\u00a0Year.\u00a0\u00a0 The first day in 2009 is to be clear as well a wonderful way to start the year.<\/p>\n

However, the end of 2008 will not disappoint me.\u00a0\u00a0Everyone this evening, at least if your skies are clear, should be able to see\u00a0Venus and the\u00a0crescent moon in the SW. Lower in\u00a0the SW will be Jupiter, and\u00a0I am going to try to see Mercury.\u00a0 Tonight it is dipping to -18C, it will be cold, but perhaps I will bundle up and go outside to take in the\u00a0New\u00a0Year with starlight\u00a0and peace. \"20081231-071\"<\/A>
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I must say, the weather over the last week, has left one to desire it much, except when the sun comes out.\u00a0 From before Christmas we had snow, so we got our White Christmas.\u00a0\u00a0 On Christmas Eve,\u00a0 later in the afternoon, it starts to rain with temperatures rising to +6 overnight, and of course this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-gardening","tag-may-the-light-of-the-stars-guide-your-way-through-the-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}