This is not really space “weather” but more like a close visual encounter.  Tonight’s full moon and the planet Jupiter will be only 6 degrees apart.

I am going to try and snatch a peek at this event. I need to be reminded that all the bullshit crap I am going right now really means nothing to the universe. So if you are feeling that way too…go out and snatch a peek for yourself.

Its a sad day for star gazers cause Jack Horkheimer, our favorite star gazer who rocked the universe in a members only jacket for many years, has gone up to that supernova in the sky.

If its clear out this evening, lift your head up and take a peek at some stars for Jack.

Ever wonder what our planet and its moon look like from 114 million miles away?

NASA’s Messenger space craft snapped this photo of our hood on its way to Mercury. Messenger is actually flying around searching for small rocky asteroids flying around the I-Sun known as “vulcanoids”. It is very humbling to see our planet from so far away, but it is comforting to see that their are no toll booths hovering in space on the highway back. Imagine the fee on that take ticket…

Ever have something minor happen to you, which seams major at the time and causes a volcanic like explosion of emotion and useless anger? Well the I-Sun feels that way too, and today it blew it’s backside off in a class C-4 solar flare. This was due perhaps to the magnetic field conversion of two sunspots. Or maybe the I-Sun just lost it because of the slow old lady in the checkout line, or the asshole comet that didn’t signal.

The next solar wind stream is scheduled to hit the I-Earth sometime around the 24th, so back up your files cause the I-Sun appears to have a major cause of the ass.

The Perseid Meteor shower is kicking ass right now. If you find yourself out during the hours of 1 – 4 am stumbling home from a bar/club/booty call, or are just up at that time for whatever reason at all-try and lift your head up towards the sky to see if you can make that wish upon a falling star coming from the region of Perseus’s Cluster.

But for those of us who usually are asleep at that time, another way to enjoy these falling rocks during the day is to listen to live meteor radio echoes of the ping backs given off by these big balls of hard space mud. It’s much nicer to listen to the dingleberries from the cluster go whizzing by, vs having to seem them I guess…

Old Sunspot 1093 is turning towards our spinning rock and hopefully it will not wink at us with its CME gaze. By tomorrow we will be in its line of fire.

So get out the tin foil…start building that I-Sun Protection Pad…back up your hard drives…and be sure to listen to your radios as the I-Sun is also broadcasting it’s fury on 21 MHz.