Summer Sky

Check out Earthsky to see the comings & goings in our solar system this week. It's fascinating. It might even tempt you to get up very early...or go to bed very, very late.

On the menu this week? Saturn is fixated, there will be a very long total lunar eclipse tonight & all week keep your eyes peeled for the daytime moon. That's plenty!

ciao-meow/GG

(Sorrento, Italy via Sunsurfer)

The moon over Sicily

Happy first night of Passover to our Jewish friends everywhere. Shalom! (The Moon... in the distance by Giampaolo Macorig)

Venus, Jupiter, the Crescent Moon

Phenomenon ... the smiley celestial face has been captured by readers.
Daily Telegraph/Australia/1 December 2008
Picture: Scott Chaney

May this be good tidings...
bonsoir, bisou!
xo, GG Central

Joey Cheek, Team Darfur, & ivoteyouvote.com

Note from GG: The Olympics are still on & Team Darfur is still in China. Congratulations to all the athletes--from all countries. Postings on medals, stories, & the like from Team Darfur as soon as they are available & GG recovers from staying up too late looking at the full moon (hey, it's still here tonight, Sunday, 17 August). See Parts I & Deux.

More video next week, but for now, please take a look at lovely Joey Cheek & this (fairly) new video. From www.ivoteyouvote.com.

Joey Cheek, Olympic Gold Medalist and Founder of Team Darfur talks about how important it is to get friends and family involved in our democracy, and how easy that is through www.ivoteyouvote.com.

xoxo, GG

A Full Moon Rising, Part Deux

Check out our new lunar widget! GG is too fond of this nonsense at times, but we're so impressed with people who can actually write these things. We feel like geniuses for just copying the code into the template. The moon is a recurring theme at GG Central.

GG was awakened in the wee hours by the luminous, waxing moon. If GG's awake, then so is her editor (but not the way you think...it's the editor who keeps GG awake); so we sat with elbows & paws propped up on the big old windowsill & looked up through the giant oaks. So difficult to believe we're in a major urban area with the tiny "finger" of the huge nearby park. We wish children in Darfur -- and everywhere--could have this same lovely quiet & bit of green.