How I Missed the Conjunction of Tarva and Alambil

Date December 10, 2006

“At the dead of night, two noble planets, Tarva and Alambil, will pass within one degree of each other. Such a conjunction has not occurred for two hundred years.” (Dr. Cornelius in Prince Caspian)

Irish weather strikes again.

We had a tight conjunction of Mercury, Mars and Jupiter this morning. When I went to bed the weather was crisp, cold and perfectly clear. When I woke up pre-dawn, it was totally socked in and dumping down rain.

Oh well. If I watch my cholesterol, I might just make it to the next one in 2050. (Also, this morning was just the tightest conjunction: the three planets will still be fairly close tomorrow morning.)

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One Response to “How I Missed the Conjunction of Tarva and Alambil”

  1. Phil Boswell said:

    December 11th, 2006 at 10:34 am

    Curses and black pudding!

    I’ve totally missed this: first off I wasn’t even notified until reaching work this morning, my personal laptop having committed seppuku AGAIN :-( and second the weather over here in Amersham is every bit as bad as yours sounds (sky? what sky?).

    Thanks for the heads-up though, it’s good to know the universe is till working behind the grey curtains ;-)

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