Day: July 9, 2022

July 9 Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2022 July 9

Saturn and the ISS

Image Credit & Copyright: Tom Glenn

Explanation: Soaring high in skies around planet Earth, bright planet Saturn was a star of June’s morning planet parade. But very briefly on June 24 it posed with a bright object in low Earth orbit, the International Space Station. On that date from a school parking lot in Temecula, California the ringed-planet and International Space Station were both caught in this single high-speed video frame. Though Saturn was shining at +0.5 stellar magnitude the space station was an even brighter -3 on the magnitude scale. That difference in brightness is faithfully represented in the video capture frame. In the challenging image, the orbiting ISS was at a range of 602 kilometers. Saturn was about 1.4 billion kilometers from the school parking lot.

Good Day/Evening

I hope this finds you all in good health, happy, relaxed, and having a magickal day.

I am back on my cellphone again not sure whether I can do today’s regular posts in part or whole. I can still hardly sit up enough to even use my laptop.

I am finally breaking down and going to our local emergency room mainly to find out if I broke a vertebrae or if the injury is just muscle problems. Metaphysical healers have worked on me all of last week but that didn’t help much.

The pain started when I fell about 2 feet off a step ladder a week ago landing on my left hip and lower back. Usually I would feel better by now but since I am not my doctor wants me to get checked out.