Today:
Standard Time has returned, but what does that mean? The idea of a “standard” time, and time zones, replaced the Sun as the method for determining noon. Local noon is when the Sun is directly south, but when trains made long distance travel possible in the 1800s, train schedules required standardized, rather than local time.
Monday:
Tomorrow morning, briefly visible and quite low in the east-southeast, the planet Venus appears to have a companion, the star Spica located to the right, and a bit higher than Venus. The two are heading in opposite directions, with Spica rising earlier each morning, while Venus inches closer to the Sun, lost in the Sun’s glare by the end of the month.
Tuesday:
As twilight arrives, the nearly-Full Moon rises in the east-northeast, becoming Full early tomorrow morning, directly opposite the Sun. Like most Full Moons, this one passes just outside the Earth’s shadow, which means there won’t be a Lunar Eclipse. The tilted orbit of the Moon, and the timing, won’t be right for a Lunar Eclipse until March of 2026.