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Post by Kimby on Jun 7, 2010 21:05:20 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Jun 9, 2010 16:50:57 GMT
Space Weather News for June 8, 2010 spaceweather.comNEW COMET McNAUGHT: A fresh comet is swinging through the inner solar system, and it is brightening rapidly as it approaches Earth for a 100 million mile close encounter in mid-June. Comet McNaught (C/2009 R1) has a vivid green head and a long wispy tail that look great through small telescopes. By the end of the month it could be visible to the naked eye perhaps as bright as the stars of the Big Dipper. Because this is the comet's first visit to the inner solar system, predictions of future brightness are necessarily uncertain; amateur astronomers should be alert for the unexpected. Visit spaceweather.com for sky maps, photos and more information.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2010 11:16:58 GMT
Thanks for this Kimby!!! Yes, we have the solstice coming up soon,I will be in Miami Beach for.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2010 15:50:00 GMT
Summer Solstice today (7:38 a.m. Eastern). Happy, happy good people...the longest day of the year.......
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2010 4:12:59 GMT
Was a long day
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2010 1:50:31 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Jun 28, 2010 1:24:24 GMT
Did anyone see this? WEEKEND LUNAR ECLIPSE: On Saturday, June 26th, the Moon will pass through Earth's shadow, producing a 54% partial lunar eclipse. The event is visible from most of the Americas, Australia, Japan, east Asia and all of the Pacific Ocean. For readers in the USA, the best time to look is just before sunrise on Saturday morning. Visit spaceweather.com for more information
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2010 2:15:54 GMT
I posted right above you about it Kimby... I looked,it was I believe, at 7:30m a.m.,I could not see it.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 29, 2010 1:04:46 GMT
Page break messed me up, sorry. But mainly I wanted to know if ANYBODY had seen the eclipse, since I didn't - cloudy in Wisconsin. And at 7:30 a.m. it would have been daylight for 2 hours!
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Post by spindrift on Jul 4, 2010 10:04:40 GMT
the ISS is in the skies over the UK....but I haven't spotted it this week.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2010 14:21:11 GMT
I didn't see the eclipse either.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2010 10:54:25 GMT
There was a fabulous crescent moon hovering over my garden when I awoke this morning at 4:30 a.m. nestled between the clouds. It was breathtaking, and I went out on the balcony with my coffee and just sat and stared at it in the predawn light. (a terrible picture of it,I really was more interested in just looking at it,I couldn't be bothered by the camera .)
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Post by Kimby on Jul 8, 2010 22:11:15 GMT
July 11th there will be a total solar eclipse, if you're lucky enough to live on Easter Island. www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~harwood/443a6bd7.jpgJuly 11th 2010 Total Solar eclipse at 19 degrees Cancer 19-33 GMT Visible from South America [Total: South Pacific, Easter Is., Chile, Argentina]. The Wall Street Journal yesterday had a wonderful map tracking the paths of all the upcoming solar eclipses in the next 20 years. Unfortunately, they won't let me access it online without logging in, which probably means that if I try posting a link to it here, it won't be accessible for others, either. The map only shows total eclipses, not partial eclipses. The next one in Montana is Aug. 21, 2017. (I'd mark my calendar except it doesn't go out 7 years!) Those of you in Eastern Canada will get one that also crosses Mexico and Texas on April 8, 2024. Northern Alaskans and Bering Islanders will see one March 30, 2023. That does it for North America for the forseeable future. Northern Australians will get one November 13, 2012, Icelanders will see one March 20, 2015, and Indonesians on March 9, 2016. The northern parts of both Chile and Argentina will be darkened by an eclipse on July 2, 2019. August 12, 2026, one will cross Greenland and Spain and another crosses North Africa on August 2, 2027. (Egyptians will see that one as well as another on March 20, 2034.) South Africa's next total eclipse is Nov. 25, 2030 and the path of that one will also cross Australia, which will also have an eclipse on July 22, 2028. China gets eclipsed on September 2, 2035. Except for the 2026 Spanish eclipse, Europeans are out of luck, unless they want to pay big bucks to join an eclipse tour elsewhere. foto too big -- pls reduce to post
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2010 10:44:18 GMT
The planet Venus is quite prominent in the evening sky these days. Watched the sunset out at the lake last p.m. and saw it clear,clear,clearly on the horizon. Quite stunning.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 14, 2010 16:23:11 GMT
Perhaps the man behind the curtain can make a spoiler alert of big photos, so that the link is not lost, making it exceedingly difficult to find for reposting smaller....
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2010 16:46:30 GMT
I would love to frequent this thread, but when I moved to the Big City, I had to abandon any hope of seeing a natural sky.
You people in those rural nothern areas are very lucky.
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Post by spindrift on Jul 14, 2010 21:40:05 GMT
I, too, have been watching Venus every night for the last week whilst in France. She's been brilliant. Each evening she's slightly lower in the sky after sunset.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2010 2:47:42 GMT
Full BUCK Moon on the 25th,this upcoming Sunday. Could see it out just now, while walking, waxing in the sky.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2010 23:59:16 GMT
Reminding all y'all sky watchers, FULL MOON tonight good people!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2010 12:38:44 GMT
Couldn't see a thing last night,lightning thunder,serious rain...remnants of that storm Bonnie still lingering about.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2010 2:15:27 GMT
VENUS continues to shine bright in the evening sky,so brilliant!!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2010 21:17:14 GMT
Some great action in the skies in this part of the world for August. Mars skims below Saturn on the 1st (tonite). Venus passes below Saturn from the 6th to the 8th,then finally catches Mars from the 15th to the 22nd.All are now low in the southwest at nightfall. The trio form interesting triangles during the first half of the month,with the crescent Moon dangling below them on the 12th. Perfect moonless conditions prevail for the great Perseid meteor shower on the night of the 11th-12th. The action intensifies after midnite,with one meteor per minute,on average!!!!! Jupiter at a dazzling magnitude -2.8 rises by 10:00pm at midmonth and is nicely up at midnite,dominating the sky.Venus closely meets Virgo's blue star on the 30th and 31st.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 2, 2010 22:29:20 GMT
Recent solar storms mean increased opportunity for aurora watchers in the higher latitudes over the next few nights....
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Post by Kimby on Aug 5, 2010 4:52:24 GMT
Has anyone seen the northern lights? Great views from Wisconsin to Maine, last night. I looked at 2:30a.m. last night but the moon had already risen, bleaching out the sky. Tonight is darker so far, but the big hill behind our house blocks the northern sky, so it's pretty iffy that I'll see them.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2010 11:01:45 GMT
We can't see them this far South Kimby,but, I do recall them vividly and fondly from growing up in the North.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 5, 2010 14:37:30 GMT
spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_01aug10_page3.htm?PHPSESSID=6tp6m65654am7crqk09k699o11August 2010 Aurora photo gallery. Note that each photographer has more than one shot to look at, and the one displayed is not necessarily #1. (I couldn't see anything last night, but I looked hard.) Update - nothing on the 4th here in Montana, either. Here's spaceweather.com again: THE SHOW IS OVER ... FOR NOW: Geomagnetic activity has subsided to low levels and the aurora show of August 3rd and 4th has come to an end. At the height of the display, Northern Lights descended as far south as Wisconsin and Iowa in the United States. And not all the lights were Northern. Tom Luttrell sends this picture from Australia's Casey Station on the coast of Antarctica:
"We missed the major part of the storm--wrong side of the planet--but still caught some bright Southern Lights after the sun went down," says Luttrell.
All in all, it was the best aurora display of the year and the finest of young Solar Cycle 24. As solar activity climbs toward a maximum in 2013, this kind of event will become increasingly commonplace, happening on a monthly and even weekly basis. Are you ready?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2010 5:44:13 GMT
This weekend kicks off the annual August days of meteor showers... (Perseid Meteor Shower, etc.)
No hope of seeing anything in my urban sky of course.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 6, 2010 15:13:23 GMT
I have fond memories of sleeping outside and Perseid watching with my family as a child. This is what spaceweather.com has to say about it: On Thursday, August 12th, an alignment of planets in the sunset sky will kick off the finest meteor shower of 2010, the Perseids.and NASA: science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/05aug_perseids/The Perseid meteor shower is caused by debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle. Every 133 years the huge comet swings through the inner solar system and leaves behind a trail of dust and gravel. When Earth passes through the debris, specks of comet-stuff hit the atmosphere at 140,000 mph and disintegrate in flashes of light. These meteors are called Perseids because they fly out of the constellation Perseus.
Swift-Tuttle's debris zone is so wide, Earth spends weeks inside it. Indeed, we are in the outskirts now, and sky watchers are already reporting a trickle of late-night Perseids. The trickle could turn into a torrent between August 11th and 13th when Earth passes through the heart of the debris trail.
2010 is a good year for Perseids because the Moon won't be up during the midnight-to-dawn hours of greatest activity. Lunar glare can wipe out a good meteor shower, but that won't be the case this time.And best of all, we will be camping above treeline in the wilderness on the 12th, and will have no excuse for not seeing shooting stars!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2010 15:21:07 GMT
Yes,as noted in post #81,predicting, a shower a minute,how cool is that? I am very psyched!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2010 17:51:44 GMT
Tonight is a New Moon,insuring dark skies for Thursday night's peak performance of the Perseid Meteor shower. Hopefully,some of our more talented photographers with more sophisticated equipment can photograph this celestial phenomena.
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