We're not quite to the dog days of summer but it feels like it on the east coast today. A stalled front in the Carolina's, a Bermuda high off the coast and the air is tropical and loaded with moisture and our mild spring and early summer is a distant memory. Relief is coming with a cool front on Saturday and drier, cooler air but that seems a long way off if you step outside for the next couple of days. Summer is really here (hard to believe with 4th of July temperatures barely to 70)!!!
If you dare step out in the soupy air of early evening tonight you will catch a thin, crescent moon near the heart of Leo, Regulus. Tomorrow evening the moon, sliding about 12 degrees a day, will be below and west of Jupiter, above and east of the king of the planets on Saturday night (might even be cool enough to pleasantly gaze upon the set up by then). Put your imagination to work and imagine the view of Jupiter that the space craft Juno is experiencing right now. Arriving on the 4th, the probe is beginning a tour that will hopefully last for months (the first couple of orbits will take almost 2 months each) and send back lots of new info about the enigma that is Jupiter.
Still lovely in the southeast, Mars, Saturn and Antares continue to move slightly about and will be visited by the moon about this time next week. It's not that hot, get out and check out your solar system and galaxy - that hazy swath just east of the the planet/star trio is the Milky Way, catch it before the waxing moon gets much brighter, today on Earth.
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