Archives for February 2010
Full Moon tonight
Published on 28 Feb 2010 at 00:00.
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Sunday 28th February 2010
Moon Landing Sites
This image shows the locations of many spacecraft that have landed on the Moon. Green triangles are Apollo missions, yellow are NASA Surveyor missions and red are Russian Luna spacecraft, so tonight take a look at the Full Moon – you wont see anything mankind spacecrafts or missions on the [...]
Nicholas Patrick, NASA Astronaut.
Published on 27 Feb 2010 at 00:00.
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Saturday 27th February 2010
NASA Astronaut – Nicholas Patrick.
Did you know he is a British-born?
Dr. Nicholas Patrick was born in 1964 in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. He also considers London, England and Rye, New York to be his hometowns. He became a U.S. Citizen in 1994.
Dr. Nicholas Patrick has logged over [...]
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Dairy dates for March 2010
Published on 26 Feb 2010 at 00:00.
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Dairy Dates for March 2010
Tuesday 2nd - 06:00 / 6am
The Moon is just 7 degrees from Saturn.
Sunday 7th - 04:00 / 4am
Antares Star is 1.3 degrees from the Moon.
The Moon is Last Quarter.
Friday 12th - 10:00 / 10pm
The Moon is Apogee.
Monday 15th - 21:00 / 9pm
New Moon
Wednesday 17th - 06:00 / 6am
Uranus is in conjunction [...]
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Facts of Solar System
Published on 25 Feb 2010 at 00:00.
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Thursday 25th February 2010
Facts of Solar System
The Sun and all the celestial bodies which rovolve around the Solar System with their satellites (moons) and ring systems, and other inter-planetary – Mercury & Venus, altogether the eight planets now, it was nine planets, the remove one was Pluto, it now belongs to Kuipter belt as `Dwarf [...]
Constellation :- Lynx
Published on 24 Feb 2010 at 00:00.
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Wednesday 24th February 2010 @ 21:30 / 9.30pm
Above your head the constellation is Lynx (The Lynx), lying in the Northern Sky between Ursa Major (The Plough) and Auriga (The Charioteer), and is surprisingly large – greater in area than Gemini – The Twin (only 514 square degrees and 30th ranking of 88 constellations, Lynx has [...]
Northern Lights
Published on 23 Feb 2010 at 00:00.
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Tuesday 23rd February 2010
Experienced observers say February 2010 has been one one of the best months in years for Northern Lights Auroras because of an increasingly active sun is responsible for the ongoing show that the Sun Solar observing now the minimum is passed.
See the Northern Lights – February 2010.
NASA Missions
Published on 22 Feb 2010 at 02:00.
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Monday 22nd February 2010
Updated @ 03:03 / 3.30am
Endeavour safety lands at kennedy Space Centre at 03:23:02 am (NASA Tv – Landed).
A further four shuttle missions will happens within seven months, some of them will bring equipment and supplies to the International Space Station (ISS).
The next one will be target for launching on April 5th 2010 [...]
Seven Sister is passing by the Moon
Published on 21 Feb 2010 at 19:30.
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Sunday 21st February 2010 @ 19:15 / 7.15pm
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This attached that is what I saw with my 10×50 binocular during the Moon passing Seven Sister to take them at approx 7.15pm tonight with a Canon EOS 400D with a 200mm lens (F-Stop:- F6.3 / Exposure time:- 15 secs / ISO Speed:- ISO-400.)
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NASA Missions Landing
Published on 21 Feb 2010 at 09:00.
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Sunday 21st February 2010
Space Shuttle is coming home.
Updated @ 09:00 / 9am
Weather permitting, Endeavour’s deorbit burn will occur at 9:14 p.m (EST Sunday 21st). / 02.14am GMT (UK) tomorrow early morning on Monday 22nd, leading to a landing at Kennedy Space Center at 10:20 p.m . EST / 02.20am GMT (UK).
Join us tomorrow beginning [...]
The Moon and Pleiades (Seven Sisters)
Published on 21 Feb 2010 at 00:00.
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Sunday 21st February 2010 at 18:20 / 6.20pm
Five months ago this image was captured on October 7th 2009 at 21:00 / 9pm by The University of Manchester.
Tonight with binocular at the Moon is just on the lower reaches of the `Pleiades` (M45 – Seven Sisters) star and continues through the cluster until around 21:30 [...]
