Changing skies

[heliopausa]

Only a week or so back I was enjoying the sight of the clear night-sky in the sharp wintry weather of rural southern Australia - it was especially good because someone showed me where the stars of Scorpio were hugely and loosely sprawled around Jupiter, which itself seemed brighter and yellower than ever

Comments

[puddleshark]

Scorpio is such beautiful constellation. In the UK it's always low on the horizon and hard to see clearly, but I occasionally glimpse it on my early morning walks in spring.

I'm sorry to hear that Typhoon Wipha has caused deaths.

[heliopausa]

Thank you.

I was stargazing at about ten-thirty at night, and Scorpio was high, stretching from about fifty or so degrees above east, across well past the zenith. I loved seeing it, especially curving around Jupiter.

[asakiyume]

Oooh, I would love identify Scorpio in the night sky--that's excellent.

And it's lovely that your return to Vietnam has been into a brief period of coolth, though I'm sorry the storm system has also resulted in loss of life.

[heliopausa]

It seems strange to me that any of the zodiac constellations are not easily seen in the northern hemisphere (something puddleshark noted in her comment above) when it was there that they were delineated and named - but so it is! Scorpio was brilliant - and huge! (I suppose they're all huge?)