Take a look at the constellation Leo. To me it's one of the few that really suggests what you are looking at. You can see the head of the lion represented by that backward question mark formed in stars. The body is easy to imagine also. On June 19th, our moon passes very close to Regulus, the star that marks the leg of the mighty lion. Take a pair of binoculars and visit this close alignment. The two will be so close you would be hard pressed to fit another moon in between them!
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This was very interesting. You have a great blog! I have an irrelevant question though, and I wonder if you might be able to help me.
I'm looking for the first name of an astronomer whose last name was Halton. He bought a mansion in Derbyshire called Wingfield Manor probably in the late 1800s.
Can you help me?
Posted by: Evelyn | June 26, 2007 at 01:53 AM