A ‘Blue Moon,’ A Comet And Uranus With Your Naked Eyes

Forbes ^ | October 25, 2020 | Jamie Carter

[CheshireTheCat]

This week will be dominated by a “Blue Moon,” the second full Moon of the month, which rises at dusk on Saturday’s Halloween. It will be the first full Moon to do that since 1944. However, before we get treated to a “Halloween Hunter’s Blue Moon,” our satellite will glide close to the bright red planet Mars. It’s still so bright because it was recently at opposition, the closest to Earth that it gets.

The weekend also sees the opposition of Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, which will just about be a naked eye sight for those lucky enough to be under spooky dark skies this Halloween.

There’s also a new comet in town! See below for details.

[CheshireTheCat]

I think nakedity is mandatory for seeing Uranus.

[Secret Agent Man]

You need a full moon to see uranus.

[Karliner]

Yeah, I’d need a mirror but it’s been kinda boring since I was about twelve.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

And a mirror.

[FlyingEagle]

Blue moon

[Biggirl]

It will be an interesting All Hallowed Eve 2020.

[fso301]

Some see Klingons around uranus.

[EvilCapitalist]

What do an Astronomer, and a Proctologist have in common? They both make a living looking at Uranus.

[Boomer]

You guys had me laughing out loud.

Well done!

Sometimes the goofiest jokes get me going.

[DariusBane]

Hoo Boy! This will be a doodie. Errr. Doosey!

[CheshireTheCat]

Uranus will be located by the constellation Cetus.

Per Wikipedia:

“Cetus may have originally been associated with a whale, which would have had mythic status amongst Mesopotamian cultures. It is often now called the Whale, though it is most strongly associated with Cetus the sea-monster, who was slain by Perseus as he saved the princess Andromeda from Poseidon’s wrath. Cetus is located in a region of the sky called “The Sea” because many water-associated constellations are placed there...”

[Candor7]

A Comet And Uranus With Your Naked Ey>>>>>

There they go, astrophysicists lighting farts yet again.

[Secret Agent Man]

I usually need coffee to get me going.

[DoodleBob]

I'd like to ask you one last time. Conduct yourselves with the utmost maturity.

[Spacetrucker]

Give the poor fool some flushable wipes, for cryin’ out loud!

[MNDude]

“Blue moon”

Makes me think of Papa Smurf

[Pappy Smear]

Blue Moon makes me think of Cybil "Maddie Hayes" Shepherd singing the song in Moonlighting.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Good thing Buttigeig didn’t win…he would have NASA send a probe there.

[arizonarick]

Oh my, the things we do in the dark!
Let the sun shine!

[fso301]

Good thing Buttigeig didn’t win…he would have NASA send a probe there.

Buttigeig would like to plug uranus.