Archives for March 2010
Constellation :- Cepheus (The King)
Published on 31 Mar 2010 at 00:00.
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Wednesday 31st March 2010
Cepheus (The King)
This far-northern constellation, adjoining Cassiopeia and extending almost to the north celestial pole, resembles a young child’s drawing of a house.
Highest the sky at 22:00 / 10pm BST from May to June.
See the SkyMap and Star Chart Atlas.
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Blue Moon
Published on 30 Mar 2010 at 00:00.
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Tuesday 30th March @ all night
On the average, a blue moon takes place once every two and a half years. But the second blue moon for this year which will appear tonight is an exceptional case. Since the full moon occurred on January 1 and 30, 2010 and preceded by 28 days of February, the [...]
Saturn & The Virgo Cluster
Published on 29 Mar 2010 at 00:00.
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Monday 29th March @ 22:00 / 10pm BST
Click here for enlarge image by Antoine Vergara Astrophotography.
You will find the planet Saturn located in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin) in the South Eastern sky, 10 degrees to the Moon’s upper left.
The constellation of Virgo (The Virgin) is the second largest of all the constellations. It [...]
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TV programme – tonight
Published on 28 Mar 2010 at 00:00.
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Sunday 28th March 2010 @ 21:00 / 9pm (BST)
(BST = British Summer Time)
Wonders of the Solar System
Episode four of five :- Dead or Alive
Programme :- BBC2 @ 9pm – 10pm
Professor Brian Cox describes how the laws of nature have carved natural wonders across the solar system. The worlds that surround our planet are all [...]
British Summer Time (BST)
Published on 27 Mar 2010 at 00:00.
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Saturday 27th March 2010
Remind you that tomorrow morning at 01:00 / 1am (Sunday 28th) the clocks go forward to 02:00 / 2am (Sunday 28th), as BST (British Summer Time) kicks in throughout the United Kindom.
The BST is also known as DST (Daylight Saving Time) are the follwing all the world to change their clock by [...]
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Venus and Mercury
Published on 26 Mar 2010 at 00:00.
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Friday 26th March 2010 @ 20:00 / 8pm
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Mercury
The closest planet to the Sun, does re-appearance in the evening skies very low in the west during the last week of March that you may just catch a glimpse of Venus and Mercury before it sets on the horizon by a naked eye.
Both [...]
This Month ~ April 2010
Published on 25 Mar 2010 at 00:00.
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Dairy Dates for April 2010
Monday 5th – 11:21 / 11.21am
Space Shuttle (STS-131) launches target.
Tuesday 6th - 09:00 / 9am
Last Quarter Moon
Wednesday 7th - 20:00 / 8pm
Venus just three degree from Mercury.
Friday 9th - 04:00 / 4am
The Moon is at Apogee (253,127 miles).
Mercury’s best apparition in evening sky for this year 2010.
Wednesday 14th - 12:00 [...]
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Altocumulus Lenticularis Clouds
Published on 24 Mar 2010 at 15:36.
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Wednesday 24th March 2010 @ 14:56 / 2.56pm
Lenticularis Clouds remain stationary as the high wind – such as possible jetstream, passes through the cloud mass on occasions, been mistaken for UFO.
I have to capture this above image, because it always when wind blows across a mountain range on the side of mountains, this process, known [...]
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Features of Interest ~ Melotte 111
Published on 24 Mar 2010 at 00:00.
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Wednesday 24th April 2010
The Coma Star Cluster
It is also known as Melotte 111 ~ an open cluster, consisting of a scattered group of stars stretching southwards in a fan shape from a star – Gamma Comae Berenices in the constellation of Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair).
It is detached with naked eye, but best seen in very [...]
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First Quarter Moon
Published on 23 Mar 2010 at 00:00.
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Tuesday 23rd March 2010 @ 11:00 / 11am
First Quarter Moon
One of the Moon’s phases, when it is at quadrature on the way to being a Full Moon and is half illuminated (moonlit) as seen from the Earth at 11am in the morning till tonight in the constellation of Gemini (The Twin).
See my left column at [...]
