Archives for June 2010
Ophiuchid Meteors Peak tonight
Published on 9 Jun 2010 at 00:00.
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Wednesday 9th June 2010
Ophiuchid Meteors Peak tonight – 9th / 10th June
A weak meteor shower with ill-defined activity limits during May and June.
The shower is not recognized by some authorities, and the meteors may simply be due to the general activity from the anthelion radiant (a broad, weak source of meteors – usually fewer than five [...]
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Comet McNaught R1
Published on 8 Jun 2010 at 00:00.
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Tuesday 8th June 2010 @ 23:00 / 11pm
DON’T MISS
Look north towards Perseus at 23:00/ 11pm to spot Comet McNaught R1, this could brighten to become a naked eye object by the end of this month.
Jupiter in the mornings
Published on 7 Jun 2010 at 00:00.
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Monday 7th June 2010
Jupiter is now becoming a realistic target for mornings observers during this month – June 2010. (Click here for enlarge image.)
What makes observing Jupiter all the more exciting this month is its continued closeness to sister planet – Uranus, less than one degree apart on tomorrow morning – Tuesday 8th June @ [...]
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Jupiter Impact!
Published on 6 Jun 2010 at 00:00.
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Sunday 6th June 2010
Anthony Wesley from Australia, he caught a live impact that the nature of the impactor is presently unknown. It might have been an asteroid or a comet?
Derekscope BSL Video
Jupiter loses belt
Published on 5 Jun 2010 at 00:00.
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Saturday 5th June 2010
Jupiter’s South Equatorial Belt (SEB), now missing – crosses the Great Red Spot in this picture taken in 2000 by NASA’s Cassini Oribiter.
And although the current disappearance probably resulted from intense storm activity within Jupiter’s atmosphere, planetary scientists find themselves at a loss to explain what the trigger was. They also don’t [...]
Neo-Clouds
Published on 4 Jun 2010 at 00:00.
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Friday 4th June 2010
Neo-Clouds
I call it Neo-Clouds as noctilucent cloud (NLC) that a cloud at very high altitude (average 50 miles) in Earth’s atmosphere, visible this month June, in the summer at twilight hours, around from 11pm to 1am.
Noctilucent means `night-shining` from latitudes between 50 degrees and 70 degrees.
Neo-Clouds (NLC) have a pearly blue colour [...]
Bouncing Sun
Published on 3 Jun 2010 at 00:00.
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Thursday 3rd June 2010
Arctic Circle
Earth has shown the mark- line as Arctic Circle, where the Sun never sets at this time of this year;- the long days of June mean the Stars are not visible until after 10pm for my local time (Milton Keynes, United Kingdom) in Northern latitudes (52 degrees N).
At 50 degrees N [...]
Constellation :- Libra (The Scales)
Published on 2 Jun 2010 at 00:00.
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Wednesday 2nd June 2010 @ 22:00 / 10pm
The constellation of Libra (The Scales), is located on the ecliptic between Virgo and Scorpius.
The ecliptic is the plane in the sky on which the sun, moon, and planets travel as we all orbit the sun on this plane, the solar system objects only pass through the constellations [...]
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This Month – June 2010
Published on 1 Jun 2010 at 00:00.
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Dairy Dates for June 2010
Thursday 3rd - 03:00 / 3am
Neptune and Moon 6 degrees apart, the Moon is at Apogee (254,845 miles away from Earth).
Friday 4th - 22:00 / 10pm
Last Quarter Moon
Sunday 6th - 05:00 / 5am
Jupiter and Uranas less than one degree apart and five degrees from Moon.
Mars is less than one degree above [...]
