Posts Made By: Curt Renz

I’m the same age as you, Ron, and learned them at the same time too. Any young astronomer who skips that step has failed to experience a truly grand spectacle presented by nature. I find it hard to imagine that any enthusiast was so quickly glued to an eyepiece that he has never learned the major constellations and brightest stars. Indeed here in Chicagoland light pollution is a big problem. Nevertheless, I can still detect the prominent constellations and stars.

Here’s one more chart I just made to graph the tilt of Saturn’s ring plane this year. The period of declining ring tilt essentially corresponds with the days when Saturn appears to be in retrograde motion.

Venus is starting to get high enough after sunset to once again be reported as a UFO on some other message boards. One woman at the Chicago Astronomer website wrote, “It upsets me that the government has not addressed its presence. Obviously it can't be ignored too much longer.”