Friday, it was light out at 5:35 AM. Over the weekend, that changed and on Monday, it was still dark enough to see constellations (like Orion) through the bathroom skylight at 5:35 AM.
By the time I shaved, showered, dressed, and took Pumpkin Pie outside to fetch the newspaper 25 minutes later, the sky was lighter and the stars had all disappeared, but I could still see Jupiter directly overhead and Venus high in the eastern sky just north of the crescent Moon.
I was planning to watch Venus transit the Sun this evening. After dinner, I took my telescope outside, but the western sky was overcast and it did not look like it would clear up before it got dark.
So I went inside and checked the NASA Television channel on the old Sony and there was the Sun with a small dot at about the 1 o'clock position. Two hours later, it is at about the 3 o'clock position.
It is like watching paint dry, but I find it more interesting than most of the other fare on the hundreds of channels the DishNetwork offers.
