ford st Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 Help wanted with go to telescope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogling Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 Smallest full moon of 2015 on March 5 http://earthsky.org "Tonight’s full moon is the smallest full moon of the year. We’ve heard it called the micro-moon or mini-moon. This March 5, 2015 full moon lies about 50,000 kilometers (30,000 miles) farther away from Earth than will the year’s closest full moon – the full supermoon and Northern Hemisphere’s Harvest Moon – on September 28. The March 5 moon is the year’s farthest full moon because full moon and lunar apogee – the moon’s farthest point in its monthly orbit – both fall on the same date." Did anyone see the moon-bow around the moon last night just about 7.00, afore it clouded over… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted March 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 Keep your fingers crossed for clear skies tonight.. A succession of CME's are about to give us a bit of a nudge and, there is a pretty good chance of auroras... Frances144 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted March 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2015 Looks like the impacts might have been delayed by some hours.. Tonight 'might' be a bit better... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted March 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 http://www.spaceweather.com/ Couldn't make it up could you.. best event in years and, what have we got... £$%^&* Clouds.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted March 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31936513 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted June 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2015 Don't know if anyone is still up or, even interested but, if you have clear skies, there are some Noctilucent Clouds (NLC's) visible high in the East. Look for a thin herringbone effect.. mogling 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogling Posted June 24, 2015 Report Share Posted June 24, 2015 Don't know if anyone is still up or, even interested but, if you have clear skies, there are some Noctilucent Clouds (NLC's) visible high in the East. Look for a thin herringbone effect..Aw, pity I never saw your post... I did see a funny peerie patch of herringbone clouds looking out the window to the east from my chair here - pity I missed the NLCs - never seen any before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted June 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2015 Keep an eye open tonight. Providing your skies are relatively clear, they should be easy to spot. They are VERY high up, don't seem to move around and, are generally a light "electric blue" coulour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted June 28, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2015 Lovely clear night with some NLC's visible about midway to the northern horizon..Go look.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogling Posted October 4, 2015 Report Share Posted October 4, 2015 http://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-venus-and-jupiter-align-in-morning-sky-october-2015 "Moon, Venus and Jupiter align in morning sky October 2015Tomorrow before sunrise – October 7, 2015 – you can’t miss the moon and the sky’s two brightest planets near the waning crescent moon. Look east, the direction of sunrise. From top to bottom, you’ll see the moon, Venus and Jupiter – the brightest, second-brightest and third-brightest celestial bodies of nighttime, respectively – before the sun rises." It's an american website, but should still be relevant to us? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogling Posted October 4, 2015 Report Share Posted October 4, 2015 Draconid meteor shower "The constellation Draco the Dragon will be spitting out meteors, also known as shooting stars. The Draconid shower is predicted to produce the greatest number of meteors on the night of October 8. Watch for them first thing at nightfall. Fortunately, the waning crescent moon won’t interfere with this year’s Draconid meteor display. Oftentimes, this hard-to-predict shower doesn’t offer much more than a handful of languid meteors per hour. But watch out if the Dragon awakes! Once again, watch at nightfall and early evening because that’s when the radiant point for the Draconid shower is highest in the nighttime sky. We emphasize it, because most meteor showers are best after midnight … but not this one."http://earthsky.org/tonight/legendary-draconids-boom-or-bust Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fly-on-the-Wall Posted October 4, 2015 Report Share Posted October 4, 2015 There's something special about watching a meteor shower and I was unaware of this one. Let's hope all the rain forecast will have passed through and we have a nice clear sky. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogling Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 Orionid meteor shower "The Orionids usually produce good observed rates, especially in the later part of the night. Although some meteor shower listings give a start date in early October, Orionid rates remain very low until the third week of the month. There is no sharp maximum and good rates should be seen during Oct 20-23. The peak ZHR will probably be about 20 this year." http://www.popastro.com/meteor/activity/activity.php?id_pag=231 http://www.popastro.comSociety for Popular Astronomy - British organisation / website I never knew about... There's something special about watching a meteor shower Absolutely!Just a pity we get so much cloudy skies on the nights that matter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frances144 Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Oooh, how exciting.When I was out searching for the aurora last week, I think I caught a meteor on my camera. Not sure. Any ideas? http://myshetland.co.uk/aurora-milky-way-and-a-draconid/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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