To the seasons of life
Within the hour India will be attempting to land on the Moon. The mission has been going on for a month since launching and is targeting the South Pole.
Watch for a confirmation of water shielded from the sun on the pole.
The Cultural Capital of Europe is announced for 2018.
August meteor shower.
Look for meteors from the Perseid shower in early August. The peak will be early mid August and sources say that moonlight will be a problem. ( Can be overcome!)
Peak will bring up to 150 meteors and hour. Comets come from the direction of the Perseus constellation, hence the name. Tonight at midnight the shower will be 44′, altitude 35.6. (44 degrees from true north azimuth, height is degrees over horizon, from Kamloops BC.)
Partly cloudy tonight however not enough to block all showers. There will be good clear sky in Merritt August 3rd – 6th.
Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.
Summer Meteor Season you sky watchers.
Someone say you should shower more often, maybe they meant Meteor shower. The Earth is intersecting rocky and ice debris fields at times of the year including the Delta Aquariids in late July. In early August there will be Perseids to be seen…
There is an advantage to darker skies when viewing meteors as well as being in an area free of ground light pollution. Merritt has a number of excellent places to view night skies.
Good luck
Hale Bopp Comet is discovered.
At @8:54 AM Pacific Daylight Time tomorrow morning summer begins for us in the Northern Hemisphere. There will be about 16 and a half hours of daylight making it the longest day of the year. Then the daylight will decrease until the fall equinox.
Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
The young moon will sweep by Mars the next few days in the west.
In the western sky the slim moon will help you find Mars. Look to the Western sky around twilight as the young slip of a moon passes Mars.
The Honda Accord personal motor Vehicle launched.
Personal Motor Vehicle manufactureMoon to meet Saturn Pre Dawn
File photo KDG
The Moon will meet Saturn on the mornings of April 24th, 25th and 26th.
On the mornings of April 24, 25 and 26, 2019, watch the moon as it travels away from the king planet Jupiter and toward the ringed planet Saturn. Although Saturn is easily visible to the eye alone, you need a telescope to view its majestic rings.
Source earth sky
Earnest Shackleton and 5 others attempt to rescue the crew of the Endurance.
Israeli moon landing
coming.
Israel has joined 7 others in orbit around the moon and will soon join three dominate countries by landing on the earths orbiting cousin. The landing will be attempted on Thursday April 11th with their Beresheet space craft. The attempt will be between the hour of 7-8 AM Universal time. ( 12- 1pm PDT on the west coast.)
A crucial six-minute engine burn was performed on April 4, in order to reduce Beresheet’s velocity relative to the moon by about 620 miles per hour (1,000 kph) – just enough for lunar gravity to capture the spacecraft and prevent it from simply sailing past the moon. Beresheet’s orbit now has a high point of 6,213 miles (10,000 km) and a low point of 310 miles (500 km) above the moon’s surface. It will continue to settle into a circular orbit of about 124 miles (200 km), before it begins its descent.
Earth Sky.
Tel Aviv is founded.
Space a frontier…
The northern part of the Artic ( Devon Island ) is going to be used by Goggle and Nasa to help understand conditions on Mars. This from Earth Sky news.
Earth Sky news
A crewed mission to Mars might be a long way off, but researchers are busy preparing, nonetheless. One of the best ways to prepare is by training scientists and testing new technologies in some of the most Mars-like locations on Earth, simulating the experience as much as possible.
On this Day: April 2nd 1513
Ponce de Leon arrives in Florida.
Last full moon in March, 20th 6:42,PM, PDT
The Moon will be completely full in this time zone tomorrow at 6:42, PM, PDT.
What has the full moon got to do with Easter?
Source full moon info
As a rule, Easter is on the Sunday after the first full moon of spring.
David Livingston is born in Scotland.
Sunday saw a total lunar eclipse of the moon high in the sky because of the season. It resulted in a great dark sky. The total eclipse lasted 61 minutes as the moon sat like a washed pearl in a black abyss .
The next total lunar eclipse…
A moon coming to within 90 percent of its closest approach or 364,740 Kilometers of earth is super moon according to a 1979 definition.The next one is next week On January 21st. The year 2019 will see 3 more, August 1st and 3oth, and September 28th!
Next weeks moon is to be a blood moon where the shadow of the earth gets on the moon when all lined up with the sun and makes an eclipse.
Totality will last a bit longer than average: 1 hour and 2 minutes. The eclipse will actually begin when the Moon enters the faint outer portion (called the penumbra) of the Earth’s shadow about an hour before it begins moving into the umbra. The penumbra, however, is all but invisible to the eye until the Moon becomes deeply immersed in it. Sharp-eyed viewers may get their first glimpse of the penumbra as a faint “smudge” on the left part of the Moon’s disk about a half hour after it first enters the penumbral shadow.
Source Farmers Almanac, Joe Rao
Hello Dolly opens on Broadway to begin a run to nearly 3000 performances.
Moon over Merritt .
File Photo KDG
The month of January is shaping up good for sky watchers. One event is a full moon on the 20th – 21st with a lunar eclipse.
Totality, or total coverage of the moon, will begin at 11:41 p.m. ET on January 20 (4:41 UT on January 21) and will last for 62 minutes. The entire 3.5-hour event—including partial eclipses before and after totality—will be visible from the Americas, Greenland, Iceland, western Europe, and western Africa. Sky-watchers in eastern Europe and eastern Africa will witness only the partial eclipse, while people in most of Asia will not see any part of the sky show.
Source :National Geographic
The eclipse will take place in the Cancer Constellation, a little west of the Beehive Cluster,Five hours 12 minutes from start to finish if you include the penumbral events preceding the event.
Done Kamloops time 11: 48 PM, 58.3 degrees altitude.
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