Doodle #5

It may look as if my eighteen-year old self was making some obscure, slightly surreal comment on Christmas, but I think actually I was testing whether I could trace a book illustration through sketchbook paper and just used the first one that came to hand, and there was a blank space about the right size on this page. I didn't sign it, possibly because the traced illustration wasn't mine, or because I decided I'd spoiled a perfectly acceptable asymmetrical diptych.

I chose this doodle because today is the day of the closest Jupiter-Saturn conjunction in several hundred years, which coming as it has between the winter solstice and Christmas Day has reminded us all that the bright star that appeared in the sky at the time of Christ's birth is generally thought to be that same conjunction.

I am convinced that this is so, in which case astronomers agree it happened on 15 September 7 BC (Old Style)(Julian Calendar) in the early morning, and not  in December.

L.
24.12.2020 (1957 hr)

Blip #3339 (#3089 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #002
Blips/Extras In 2020 #189/266 + #075/100 Extras
Day #3925 (841 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2482 (#2323 + 159 in archived blips)

Old Forge series
Art series
Treasure Trove series
Abstracts And Experiments series
Doodle series

Taken with Nikon Coolpix P900 (24-2000mm equivalent bridge camera)

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
London Grammar - Wicked Game (2016)
London Grammar's version of Chris Isaac's song was used in Peaky Blinders.