November 2007 - Astro Earth

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Astro Earth - November 2007

Planets crossing our Sun surface

November 27th 2007 08:34

The chance to see a total or partial eclipse of the Sun or Moon is very common here on Earth
Planets transiting the Sun is not a very common occurrence.
A chance to see a transit of the planet Mercury across the Sun's disc is very rare. This happens about 13 times per century, and this event is quite long, lasting about five and a half hours. The event was seen across Europe and Africa, as well as most of Asia and the far-East. This event occurred on 2003 May 7th. Mercury is quite a small planet, so will appear only as a very small black dot on the face of the Sun. This Mercury transit is the first one for several years

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Aurora Australis

November 24th 2007 02:13

Image Courtesy of IPS Radio and Space Services © Commonwealth of Australia 2007

Aurora's are very common especially in the southern parts of Australia.
Called Aurora Australis in the Southern Hemisphere and Aurora Borealis in the northern hemisphere.

Aurora is the name given to light being emitted when the upper atmosphere is bombarded by energetic charged particles emanating from the Sun. The resulting light we see is the same process that operates in a flourescent tube or neon light. Aurora occurs in an oval around the magnetic poles in both hemisphere aurorae can occur at any time day or night depending on atmospheric conditions, aurora are best seen on cloudless evenings in areas with low light pollution

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A comet’s tail is not always a happy one

November 21st 2007 08:08

Some comets are destroyed when approaching the sun so far this comet has survived.

Comet Hyakutake making a U turn around the Sun this comet also survived the encounter

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The stars of the Pleiades cluster

November 19th 2007 10:02

Image of the Pleiades cluster Photo: Anglo-Australian Observatory

The stars of the Pleiades cluster, is another example of an easily recognisable constellation that can be clearly seen now in southern hemisphere, To locate the constellation look towards the eastern night sky around 9pm (Eastern Daylight Time

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The "Big and Little Dipper"

November 15th 2007 10:29

This image is a representation the constellation of Ursa Major The Big Dipper seen from the southern hemisphere in late winter just after sunset

At times I am asked the question “ is the constellation the Big Dipper and Orion the same constellation?”

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Constellations

November 14th 2007 06:01

If you are inclined to get up early morning and would like to get a vibrant view of planet Venus, see it now as the “morning Star” . Venus shines at magnitude 4.2 and easily dominates the predawn sky. Venus begins the month close to Virgo's brightest star, 1 st magnitude Spica. “Venus will again grace our evening skies around August 2008

Astronomers use the term magnitude to denote the brightness of celestial body. The lower the number, the brighter it is. For example magnitude brighter than 0 are represented by a negative number therefore the planet Venus is refered to as magnitude -4.7 at it’s brightest. The Sun's magnitude is -26.7, the full Moon is about -12, and the bright star Sirius is -1.5 perhaps the most faintest star we can see with the human eye is around magnitude 5

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In search of new worlds

November 9th 2007 14:50

Spacecraft Dawn undergoing final check before launch

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Space Origami

November 8th 2007 02:20

Viewing conditions have not been the best at in my neck of the woods, I have been busy with some projects lately and have not been able to write my weekly blogs on astronomy and other things, I hope to be able to contribute more writings soon.

If there are people, students, etc who would like a software program to view the planets and stars from the comfort of your own computer. May I suggest a program called Stellarium this program is a planetarium based software that shows exactly what you see when you look up at the stars. It's easy to use, and free I have enclosed a link for download Click here
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The Effects of Cometary Collisions

November 5th 2007 00:07

A few weeks ago I wrote about visiting comets , there are currently two dirty ice balls (comets) in view this month comet LONEOS can be seen low in the west just after sunset and comet Holmes can be seen around 3 am. A great deal of research has been invested into what makes a comet tick, a number of space probes have been sent to photograph comets in the past decade although in 2005 NASA had a successful rendezvous with comet Temple 1.
Two spacecraft of NASA's Deep Impact mission, dubbed Flyby and Impactor by their makers. The spacecraft consists of a 370 kg cylindrical copper impactor attached to a 650 kg flyby bus. two years ago made history, their mission to unlock the inner secrets of comets. The view was spectacular. Their goal was to launch a probe that would impact on a live comet called Tempel 1.
Sixty-nine days before it gets up-close-and-personal with a comet, NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft successfully photographed its quarry, comet Tempel 1, from a distance of 64 million kilometers (39.7 million miles

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