Sky Watch

As everyone knows, Crumby’s favorite newspaper feature is Sky Watch. This week, Sky Watch asked the question, When will Venus, the planet not the Love Goddess, get closest to Regulus, the Heart of Leo? Well. Tonight’s the night. Tonight is the closest Venus is fixing to get to Regulus as viewed from Earth this year. They will appear to be very close tonight, all righty. However, Crumby won’t get to espy the described heavenly phenomena because the skies in these parts are not clear. No. They are cloudy, thus precluding a view of the ongoing celestial wonders or events. Shucks! actually it's tomorrow night. Crumby thought today was the 9th.

Merci! Ma! Sky Watch today spells that Venus and Regulus are closest tonight answering the original question. Yet, unless Crumby has gone crazy, the usually reliable Cartes du Ciel program indicates those twain were closest last night.

Whatever! Last night Crumby set up to take a picture. Course the mosquitoes had something to say about that. Anon, after suffering kajillions of bites, a dead camera battery, a mysterious hot pixel type phenomena on the LCD while using live view and gummy knobs on the focusing rail, Crumby gave up. There shall be no picture of the near-conjunction of Venus with Regulus. Tough titties!

And today, Crumby needs to figure out the hot pixel type phenomena in the camera plus analyze why the knobs on the focusing rail have apparently melted.

What Crumby should actually do is delete this miserable post. Goodness!