was just going to post about this, it's looking pretty close right now - well, it did when I was down setting up a sprinkler earlier tonight
download the Google Sky Map app - it shows which stars you're looking at when you point it to the sky
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was just going to post about this, it's looking pretty close right now - well, it did when I was down setting up a sprinkler earlier tonight
download the Google Sky Map app - it shows which stars you're looking at when you point it to the sky
If you have a telescope, the order of occultation you will see will be the main 4 Galilean moons: Ganymede (Jupiter) Io, Caslisto then Europa.
Atm, the last 3 are all clustered together on the RHS of Jupiter.
Enjoy!
Edit: It's like watching that scene from Star Wars down the trench!
Almost there......almost there.........
for those of you who use Google Chrome
http://workshop.chromeexperiments.co...ews%3Athinking
interactive 3D visualisation of the Milky Way galaxy including 100 000 nearby stars - this is pretty ****ing cool
Lyrid metro shower tonight.
Mainly Northern hemisphere occurrence BUT...
I was out checking on my Black Shouldered Kites in my neighbours tree and there in the heavens
a meteor with a dual tail flew over and burnt out.
Spectacular.
With 82 Degrees elevation a good chance to see the ISS tomorrow morning.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata...e#.UbXAaHZ--Uk
ISS
Tue Jun 11/05:57 AM
DURATION 6 minutes
MAX ELEV 82 degrees
APPROACH 10deg above NW
DEPARTURE 10 above SE
Enjoy!
Any of you astronomers know what's a decent ~8inch telescope to get?
Saturn currently occulted by the moon. Went behind dark limb 21:18.
Due out 22:13...9 minutes!
Nice Moon Ring (halo) atm peeps over Newie.
Get outside and have a gander...
ISS pretty much over head 5:14pm this Friday, approach SW.
http://iss.astroviewer.net/observati...name=Newcastle
If you've never seen it before, set a reminder alarm on your phone 5min before and get your binoculars ready if you have a pair.
Naked eye ok.
5:56am Sunday, June 7th. NW
Baring cloud cover, Venus and Jupiter 0.35-0.4 deg apart in the Western sky this evening.
Full moon to boot!
ISS this evening...
Time: Wed Jul 08 5:34 PM, Visible: 4 min, Max Height: 68 degrees, Appears: WNW, Disappears: SE
New Horizons is in all the news re: passing Ploto so.....no news here.
NASA site for updates. Happening tonight! (9:50pm AEST)
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/n...ain/index.html
And it took 9 years to get to the reject Planet!!!!.... only took 2 months for our rejects to get to Wonderland few years back !!!!
Bahaha can't believe my mechanical issues being discussed in astronomy thread
ISS passing over tonight
Sat Jul 25 6:37 PM, Visible: 4 min, Max Height: 73 degrees, Appears: SW, Disappears: NNE
about 400 kilometres
I'll have a look for it tonight if I can remember - I saw it the other week when it passed near Jupiter and Venus - just walked out on the verandah of my office and saw it rise up in the sky and then go back down, was pretty special