ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS FOR JANUARY 2009

ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS FOR JANUARY 2009

January 1: Mercury and Jupiter only 1 deg. 34' apart in west at dusk.

January 1: Waxing Crescent Moon is 9 deg. North-east of bright Venus at dusk.

January1-January5: Quadrantids meteor-shower will peak.

January 4: Mercury at greatest eastern elongation.13 deg. above from horizon at the time of sunset.

January 4: first quarter moon.

January 7: Moon 1 deg. from Pleiades.

January 8: Saturn's moon Titan is just 13" from the planet. Your scope can distinguish at 150x magnification.

January 11: Full Moon

January 13: Moon is 2 deg. South-east of Regulus.

January 16: Venus at greatest eastern elongation. 40 deg. above horizon at the time of sunset. Magnitude -4.40.

January 18: Moon is 4 deg. South-east of Spica.

January 18: Last Quarter Moon.

January 20: Mercury inferior conjunction.

January 22: Venus 1 deg. North-west of Uranus. (Uranus mag. 6).

January 24: Jupiter conjunction.

January 26: New Moon.

January 27: Mercury and Mars are 4 deg. apart. But very low in east at dawn at 7 am. (Mercury mag. 1.81 & Mars mag.1.27).

January 30: Waxing Crescent Moon (4 days old) is just 3 deg. North of brilliant Venus at dusk.

CELESTIAL SMILE

It was cloudy since last two days. I was little bit upset because I thought I would miss the wonderful conjunction of Jupiter, Venus and Moon. But fortunately clouds showed mercy and the blue sky started to appear at west just before sunset. When I come out from my home after and looked at west just after sunset, I saw awesome scene ! It was really wonderful. It reminded me of a smiley face. Venus and Jupiter were eyes and a crescent moon was like smiling lips ! At that time I had my mobile phone which featured 3.2-megapixel camera. I quickly took dozens of shots.

Secrets of the Big Bang

Secrets of the Big Bang Scientist fenil said...

What was matter like within the first second of the Universe’s life?

Matter, from which everything in the Universe is made, is believed to have originated from a dense and hot cocktail of fundamental particles. Today, the ordinary matter of the Universe is made of atoms, which contain a nucleus composed of protons and neutrons, which in turn are made of quarks bound together by other particles called gluons. The bond is very strong, but in the very early Universe conditions would have been too hot and energetic for the gluons to hold the quarks together. Instead, it seems likely that during the first microseconds after the Big Bang the Universe would have contained a very hot and dense mixture of quarks and gluons called quark–gluon plasma.

November Event

Today , Evening time in the sky very wonderful watch event.Jupiter within moon , and Jupiter take a place of Venus.
photograph capture was 4th November. Right side in down star look in the photo,this star name is Venus.nearest moon one star,that name is Jupiter.1,2,3 November Venus nearest moon.But now today change,Jupiter take place Venus.Photo Background in see our milky way part.
So very wonderful event today.very enjoy today.

Andromeda Galaxy

The Andromeda Galaxy is one of the most magnificent,objects in the night sky and undoubtedly the most famous , galaxy out side our own milky way.Easily visible as a hazy patch to the naked eye,the galaxy covers as much of the sky as 5 full moons put together, binoculars will show Andromeda in its entirety with a clear brightening towards the center.Binoculars will also two of Andromeda companion galaxies.
M32 and M110,careful observation of the nuclear region with a telescope, will reveal faint dust lanes and other structures.The Hubble space telescope has shown , that the Andromeda galaxy has a double nucleus, indicating that it may have cannibalized another galaxy. M31 was once thought to be a nebula inside our galaxy,but in 1932,astronomer Edwin Hubble showed that it lies outside the milky way. M31 is now thought to be about 2.9 million light years away. It is over 150,000 light years across, and has a mass 1.2 trillion times that of our sun.

THE SUN

Sun Data
Age :- About 5 Billion year

Diameter :- 1,392,000 km { 865,000 miles }

Distance from the earth :- 149.6 million km { 92.9 million miles }

Time taken to orbit Galaxy :- 240 million years

Surface temperature :- 5,500 *c { 9,900 *F }

Life expectancy :- 10 billion years

Mass { Earth = 1 } :- 332,946

UNIVERSE

The known Universe contains countless millions of Galaxies and stars.From Earth the stars seem to form patterns in the sky.These patterns are known as constellations.We see different star patterns from month to month as earth orbits the sun.