Seen This Week: Color + a Major Lunar Standstill

Orange! at Phipps Conservatory, 12 Dec 2024 (photo by Kate St. John)

14 December 2024

Color! Avoiding this week’s coldest weather, Charity Kheshgi and I visited Phipps Conservatory during their annual Holiday Magic flower show. This time I was captivated by summer colors. Orange! Yellow!

Yellow! at Phipps Conservatory, 12 Dec 2024 (photo by Kate St. John)

A Major Lunar Standstill is coming up tomorrow.

The Full Moon on December 15, 2024, will rise and set at its most extreme northerly points on the horizon—the result of a once-every-18.6 years “major lunar standstill.”

Time And Date: Look Out for December’s Extreme Full Moon

How odd that just days before the winter solstice, when the sun stands still and rises and sets at its southernmost point, the moon is standing still at its northernmost point.

Watch for it tomorrow. Here’s the moon this morning with Jupiter to its left.

Jupiter and the Moon on their way to setting in the west, 14 Dec 2024 (photo by Kate St. John)

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