GREENYGREY’S RAMBLES

It was a great night celebrating GG’s CBBAW win last night, but the green and grey one slept through it all. 

To make the night even more special, Mars is at its closest to Earth for two years at the moment, and it is near the moon in the early UK night.  You can tell its reddish/orangeness with the naked eye.  Apparently it was also the brightest Full Moon of the year a couple of nights ago.

Surprised GG didn’t wake up for that!

The way my house is shaped, together with some past reading, has brought me to realise how much the sun-rise travels across the horizon over the course of a year.

Before, I just used to think the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, but now I have noticed how much difference there is between where it rises in winter and summer.

Around the winter solstice the sun-rise was visible from my bedroom window; an orange or red blob rising in the distance over the hills.

But now it rises strong and yellow into my bathroom window at the side of the house.

The amount of distance this covers contains the centre of Leeds and more.

I wonder if it was by such situational circumstances that the first astronomers began to notice the changes in the sky over the course of a year.

Or maybe they were just more observant than me!

Photos of the winter and summer sun-rises: