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Friday, November 15, 2019
Grant Shaffer's NY See
Here's the latest NY See, East Village-based illustrator Grant Shaffer's comic series — an observational sketch diary of things that he sees and hears around the neighborhood.
Go Grant! The transit was also shown on the steps of the Museum of Natural History. At Second Avenue there was a lengthy discussion about "Mercury in Retrograde," and what effect that might have on the transit. So, for the record: although astrologically the Sun is in Scorpio now, astronomically it is in Libra. Mercury orbits the Sun much faster than Earth does, so it regularly overtakes us, moving around counter-clockwise, and therefore appearing to move left-to-right rather than right-to-left. Indeed it passed in front of the Sun retrograde on Monday, but reflector telescopes invert the image, so it appeared to pass right-to-left. The Earth rotates toward the east, but our neighborhood streets are angled a few degrees, and so not exactly east-west. The next one is in 2032, but will not be visible here.
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Go Grant! The transit was also shown on the steps of the Museum of Natural History. At Second Avenue there was a lengthy discussion about "Mercury in Retrograde," and what effect that might have on the transit. So, for the record: although astrologically the Sun is in Scorpio now, astronomically it is in Libra. Mercury orbits the Sun much faster than Earth does, so it regularly overtakes us, moving around counter-clockwise, and therefore appearing to move left-to-right rather than right-to-left. Indeed it passed in front of the Sun retrograde on Monday, but reflector telescopes invert the image, so it appeared to pass right-to-left. The Earth rotates toward the east, but our neighborhood streets are angled a few degrees, and so not exactly east-west. The next one is in 2032, but will not be visible here.
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