The Times today

I see from 'The Times' today page 49 under Night Sky for September it states
" The Moon crosses the celestial equator at 16:44 BST on the 22nd, and this
point thus marks the autumnal equinox and the halfway point between
midsummmer and midwinter.
There was me thinking it was the sun and not the moon silly me as "The Times
must be correct.

Paul

On or about 2008-09-01,
Paul Forsdick illuminated us with:


I see from 'The Times' today page 49 under Night Sky for September it states
" The Moon crosses the celestial equator at 16:44 BST on the 22nd, and this
point thus marks the autumnal equinox and the halfway point between
midsummmer and midwinter.
There was me thinking it was the sun and not the moon silly me as "The Times
must be correct.

Erk! I see that it's apparently Chris Lintott making the mistake:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/lif...cle4647527.ece

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Paul Forsdick wrote:

I see from 'The Times' today page 49 under Night Sky for September it states
" The Moon crosses the celestial equator at 16:44 BST on the 22nd, and this
point thus marks the autumnal equinox and the halfway point between
midsummmer and midwinter.
There was me thinking it was the sun and not the moon silly me as "The Times
must be correct.

Heh. You'd love this month's Mensa magazine. Notable for its many
columns on the paranormal and readers' letters containing some very old
"new proofs" for the existence of God, about all that it usually has of
interest is the puzzles page.

This month though it has a story on an amateur who's been pursuing a radio
astronomy hobby for many years. Naturally they call it "Radio
Astrology" in the article title.

FoFP

On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 11:38:29 +0100, "Paul Forsdick"
wrote:

I see from 'The Times' today page 49 under Night Sky for September it states
" The Moon crosses the celestial equator at 16:44 BST on the 22nd, and this
point thus marks the autumnal equinox and the halfway point between
midsummmer and midwinter.
There was me thinking it was the sun and not the moon silly me as "The Times
must be correct.

Paul

I always wondered who it was that wrote in

Pete

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