Jupiter & Moon above Nelson's Monument
The Nelson's Monument is a commemorative column or tower built in memorial to Admiral Horatio Nelson, situated on the Denes, Great Yarmouth in the county of Norfolk, England. It was designated as a Grade I listed structure in 1953.
Designed by architect William Wilkins, it was raised in the period 1817–19 from money raised by a committee of local magnates. The first custodian of the monument was former Able Seaman James Sharman, a member of the crew of HMS Victory from Norfolk and one of those who carried Nelson below decks after he was shot.
The monument, correctly called the Norfolk Naval Pillar, is in the style of a Doric column topped by six caryatid figures that support a statue of Britannia proudly standing atop a globe inscribed with the motto from Nelson's coat of arms Palmam Qui Meruit Ferat (translates to 'Let him who has merited it take the palm'), she holds an olive branch in her outstretched right hand, a trident in her left and looks inland – said to be towards Nelson's birthplace in Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk. The whole monument is 144 ft (44 m) high, compared to 169 ft (52 m) for the monument in Trafalgar Square and the top is reached by some two hundred and seventeen steps. The structure was completely restored in time for the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 2005. In 2006 it was removed from English Heritage's Buildings At Risk register. In August 2006 it was rededicated. It currently stands, albeit separated in its own small railed plot, in an industrial estate. The monument is open to the public on a limited basis.
During the evenings of September 5, 6 and 7, 2019 featured the moon and the solar system’s two largest gas giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn. Given clear skies, you can’t miss the moon and Jupiter. The moon is the second-brightest celestial object, after the sun; Jupiter ranks as the fourth-brightest, after the planet Venus, which was in the sun’s glare this month. With Venus gone from our sky, there was no way to mistake Venus for Jupiter in September 2019. Jupiter is simply the brightest starlike object visible.
The moon reached its first quarter phase on September 6, 2019, at 03:10 a.m. Universal Time (UTC). At first quarter, the one half of the moon is illuminated in sunshine while the dark half is engulfed in the moon’s own shadow.
The dark side of a waxing moon always points eastward (direction of sunrise). And the moon in its orbit always travels toward the east, too, relative to the sky background. The moon travels about 1/2 degree eastward – its own width on our sky’s dome – every hour. So the moon went past Jupiter, and then past Saturn.
The moon swang 2 degrees (4 moon-diameters) to the north of Jupiter on September 6, 2019, at 6:52am UTC. Then the moon (more precisely: the center of the moon) swept 0.04 degree to the south of Saturn on September 8, 2019, at 13:53 UTC. In other words, if you were at the right spot on Earth (Australia and Indonesia) you could have actually watched the moon occult (cover over) Saturn on the night of September 8-9.
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Jupiter & Moon above Nelson's Monument
The Nelson's Monument is a commemorative column or tower built in memorial to Admiral Horatio Nelson, situated on the Denes, Great Yarmouth in the county of Norfolk, England. It was designated as a Grade I listed structure in 1953.
Designed by architect William Wilkins, it was raised in the period 1817–19 from money raised by a committee of local magnates. The first custodian of the monument was former Able Seaman James Sharman, a member of the crew of HMS Victory from Norfolk and one of those who carried Nelson below decks after he was shot.
The monument, correctly called the Norfolk Naval Pillar, is in the style of a Doric column topped by six caryatid figures that support a statue of Britannia proudly standing atop a globe inscribed with the motto from Nelson's coat of arms Palmam Qui Meruit Ferat (translates to 'Let him who has merited it take the palm'), she holds an olive branch in her outstretched right hand, a trident in her left and looks inland – said to be towards Nelson's birthplace in Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk. The whole monument is 144 ft (44 m) high, compared to 169 ft (52 m) for the monument in Trafalgar Square and the top is reached by some two hundred and seventeen steps. The structure was completely restored in time for the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 2005. In 2006 it was removed from English Heritage's Buildings At Risk register. In August 2006 it was rededicated. It currently stands, albeit separated in its own small railed plot, in an industrial estate. The monument is open to the public on a limited basis.
During the evenings of September 5, 6 and 7, 2019 featured the moon and the solar system’s two largest gas giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn. Given clear skies, you can’t miss the moon and Jupiter. The moon is the second-brightest celestial object, after the sun; Jupiter ranks as the fourth-brightest, after the planet Venus, which was in the sun’s glare this month. With Venus gone from our sky, there was no way to mistake Venus for Jupiter in September 2019. Jupiter is simply the brightest starlike object visible.
The moon reached its first quarter phase on September 6, 2019, at 03:10 a.m. Universal Time (UTC). At first quarter, the one half of the moon is illuminated in sunshine while the dark half is engulfed in the moon’s own shadow.
The dark side of a waxing moon always points eastward (direction of sunrise). And the moon in its orbit always travels toward the east, too, relative to the sky background. The moon travels about 1/2 degree eastward – its own width on our sky’s dome – every hour. So the moon went past Jupiter, and then past Saturn.
The moon swang 2 degrees (4 moon-diameters) to the north of Jupiter on September 6, 2019, at 6:52am UTC. Then the moon (more precisely: the center of the moon) swept 0.04 degree to the south of Saturn on September 8, 2019, at 13:53 UTC. In other words, if you were at the right spot on Earth (Australia and Indonesia) you could have actually watched the moon occult (cover over) Saturn on the night of September 8-9.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Monument