New Design

Barely... I moved some stuff around on the right side and got rid of some of the pictures that were just gathering dust. The addition that inspired this slight reformatting though is the banner right under the main picture. I was so happy when I copied the html code into the blogger html... box... thing... anyway...

In my planet related browsing ove the past 3 weeks, I found http://www.davidcolarusso.com/astro/ which has a really cool timelapse of the predicted locations of the planets and sun in the sky. Its actually what led me to the discovery of the optimal viewing arrangement that will happen in early march. Its a nice quick way to figure out what's where for tonight... of course you have to know what you are looking at.

Basically, the circle with the dot is the symbol of the sun. It moves to the left as the year goes on (and up and down a little). Any symbols left of the sun are planets visible in the evening. Symbols to the right are planets visible in the morning. I could go into much more detail about this, but I'm just going to stick with an explanation that makes sense.