#8 february

[newyorkthegoldenage]

An advanced group in a night class in painting held twice weekly at Stuyvesant Evening High school, free to the public, February 8, 1950.

Photo: Ed Ford for the AP via Alamy

[greendayauthority]

[chengyangblog]

[wiiildflowerrr]

@Michael5SOS: I do have blue hair

8 February 2015

[scp-threats-is-back]

HAPPY KING TAEJONG FELL FROM HORSE DAY

[joemerl]

It's February 8th! Guess whose birthday it is today?

Jules Verne

Martin Buber

James Dean

Seth Green

Josh Keaton

ME!!!!!

All of the above

Voting ended onFeb 9

[oediex]

I'm an astronomer now. Or well, an amateur one in the sense my father likes to use that word, deriving from its French origin, "lover of". His preferred activity to refer to is wine drinking, though. "Pour les amateurs," he says, as he pulls of the cork.

Tonight one of my neighbours found me in the streets with my phone pointing at the sky, desperately trying to capture an image on a second-hand iPhone 8 of the moon with Mars on one side, and Jupiter on the other.

It looked exactly like the star maps I had been studying today. Well, barring a few stars, of course, that are missing from my view due to light pollution.

And I'm kind of proud for figuring out myself, the other day, before I saw these star maps, that one of the visible planets was Mars and the other Jupiter.

An image of the moon with Mars on the left (a little reddish, though it's not very clear on this image), and Jupiter on the right by the houses.

The star map I was studying today, doesn't it look exactly like my picture?

As you can see, I'm missing many stars. But I think the one you see at the top of my image, at about 1.30 on a clock if the moon is the middle, is Capella, the brightest star of Auriga, which is 'Voerman' in Dutch.

You can also see Castor and Pollux, the two brightest stars of the Gemini constellation ('Tweelingen' in Dutch) to the left of Mars. Here's a close-up, because I think Tumblr is compressing the image:

And here is a close-up of Mars, where you can really see the orange shine:

I'm obsessed.

[dateinthelife]

February 8, 1971

[Liverpool Echo, February 8, 1971]

On this date in 1971, Paul was kicked out of 21 twice for wearing sneakers and refusing to wear a tie, a fact he attempted to hide on his second go by wearing an overcoat and claiming he was too cold to take it off.