"So really... on the way back to the peak of normal I say "Good Night" for today with this composition of Mars and the Moon, I dream of a mandolin, like AJ Lee's but everything in its time.. I am happy that several friends of mine were convinced to meet 1 time a week for house music after the summer holidays. Making music together is something great and gives so much strength for everyday life, doesn't it? The Brothers Comatose & AJ Lee (previous post) are an inspiring example!"

2022 December 15

Full Moon, Full Mars
* Image Credit & Copyright: Tomas Slovinsky
https://www.tomasslovinsky.com/#about

Explanation:
On (2022) December 8 a full Moon and a full Mars were close, both bright and opposite the Sun in planet Earth's sky. In fact Mars was occulted, passing behind the Moon when viewed from some locations across Europe and North America. Seen from the city of Kosice in eastern Slovakia, the lunar occultation of Mars happened just before sunrise. The tantalizing spectacle was recorded in this telescopic timelapse sequence of exposures. It took about an hour for the Red Planet to disappear behind the lunar disk and then reappear as a warm-hued full Moon, the last full Moon of 2022, sank toward the western horizon. The next lunar occultation of bright planet Mars will be in the new year on January 3, when the Moon is in a waxing gibbous phase. Lunar occultations are only ever visible from a fraction of the Earth's surface, though. The January 3 occultation of Mars will be visible from parts of the South Atlantic, southern Africa, and the Indian Ocean.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221215.html

What can I say? The title of the last post almost cries out for this song and I just can't resist, sorry.. I hope you like this version

Music & Video Credit:
The Brothers Comatose & AJ Lee - "Harvest Moon" (by Neil Young)

** Note by grobi:
"To upload this video, I converted it and compressed it to a smaller file-size under linux with the free software ffmpeg and the corresponding command:

'ffmpeg -i video_in.webm -vcodec libx265 -crf 30 video_out.mp4'

Maybe you would like to post a corresponding video on a scientifically related topic, but it is perhaps too big? Then try ffmpeg."

@KmacNessa

I immediately had to think of one of my mountain trails in the beautiful Soca Valley around Bovec/Slovenia in South-Eastern Europe.

During my early morning ascent to the "Svinjak Celo", a wild goat simply took the upper half of my sesame bun during my breakfast break. afterwards she accompanied me to the summit, where I gave her a cupped hand of my summit beer.

Later she accompanied me again on my descent and even said goodbye politely. She had a special charisma, self-confident, serious, loyal and also a little caring.

I told two Chinese travelers about it in the evening over a bottle of wine together, whereupon they set off on the same way to the summit the next morning, they were also accompanied by the goat.

In the evening they told me again about it, whereupon we appointed the goat as "Mountain Guide Of Svinjak Celo".

https://residencesoca.si/en/activities-and-experiences/svinjak/