Astronomical Event For March 2009

Astronomical Event For March 2009

MARCH 2: Mars and Mercury are just 35’ apart. Very low in East at dawn. (6:30am)
MARCH 3: Moon 3 degree NE of Pleiades (M45)
MARCH 4: First Quarter Moon
MARCH 5: Comet Lulin (C/2007 N3) will be just 2 degree SE from open cluster M44 in Cancer. Nice opportunity for astrophotographers! The comet will be only 34’ EW of Delta Cancer star.
MARCH 6: Saturn will be just 38’ from 4th magnitude Sigma Leonis star.
MARCH 7: Jupiter is just 5’ from 4th magnitude Theta Capricorni star at 6:15am.
MARCH 9: Moon 2.5 degrees S-SE from Regulus.
MARCH 9: Saturn at opposition.
MARCH 10: Saturn 6 degrees NE of moon.
MARCH 11: Full Moon
MARCH 13: Uranus conjunction
MARCH 13: Moon 4 degrees 45’ SE of spica
MARCH 15: Comet Lulin is just 33’ W of NGC 2392 (The Eskimo Nebula)
MARCH 17: Moon 3 degrees W-SW of Antares
MARCH 18: Last Quarter Moon
MARCH 23: Waning Crescent Moon is just 2.5 degrees East of Jupiter.
MARCH 26: New Moon
MARCH 26/27: Best time for Messier Marathon, locate all the 110 Messier objects in one night.
MARCH 28: Venus Inferior Conjunction
MARCH 30: A Crescent Moon occults M45 (The Pleiades)

That's all for this month.

- Scientist Fenil

ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS FOR FEBRUARY 2009

ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS FOR FEBRUARY 2009

FEBRUARY 3: First Quarter Moon

FEBRUARY 9: Penumbral Lunar Eclipse, start (local):6:10pm. End (local): 10:06pm.

FEBRUARY 9: Full Moon

FEBRUARY 11: Waning Gibbous Moon is 6 deg. SE of Saturn

FEBRUARY 12: Neptune at conjunction

FEBRUARY 14: Moon 4.5 deg. SW of Spica (around 3am)

FEBRUARY 14: Mercury at Greatest Western Elongation (26 deg. from the Sun)

FEBRUARY 17: Last Quarter moon

FEBRUARY 18: Asteroid Ceres (mag. 6.5) is just 11’ from 64 Leonis (mag.6.5).

FEBRUARY 18: Moon (23 days old) SE of Antares

FEBRUARY 18: Jupiter and Mars are just 35’ apart at 6:40am. Very low in east.

FEBRUARY 23: A thin Crescent Moon, Jupiter, Mercury and Mars form a compact grouping within 5 degrees at dawn around 6:30am. All will be fit within a binocular field of view.

FEBRUARY 24: Jupiter and Mercury are just 38’ apart at 6:30am.

FEBRUARY 26: Asteroid Ceres is at near opposition. (Distance: 1.583 A.U.; Magnitude: 6.3). Find it about 5 deg. NW of Delta Leonis.

FEBRUARY 28: Mars and Mercury are 1.5 deg. apart at 6:30am. They will be just 35’ apart on March 2nd.

COMET LULIN: Comet Lulin (C/2007 N3) will be the most splendor sight for observers. It will pursue its way along the ecliptic. This cosmic interloper will be 2.7 degrees NE of Spica on 16 February at 4:00am. It will pass 2 degrees SW of Saturn on February 23 at 11pm. Then it will pass just 1 degree South of Regulus on 27th February.

That's all for this month.

- Scientist Fenil

What's Up for January ?

Hello and welcome. I am Scientist Fenil at SEVENF'S AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION AMATEURS ASTRONOMY CLUB , Gujarat , India.

Each month during 2009 we'll be celebrating International Year of Astronomy. We’ll focus on night sky wonders you can see space science discoveries.

Venus is easy to see this month.

Just step outside just after sunset any winter evening. The planet will brighten and appear crescent shaped as the winter months march towards spring.

Venus is sometimes called Earth's sister planet because it's the nearest planet to Earth and it's nearly the same size. But unlike Earth, Venus is obscured by a blanket of dense carbon dioxide. Venus also has several layers of dense clouds composed of sulfuric acid. These clouds completely obscure our view of the planets surface.

Venus has been easily observed for thousands of years, but it wasn't until the 17th Century that telescopes first revealed some of its wonders.

Four hundred years ago, Galileo first observed the phases of Venus through a telescope. The prevailing belief was that the sun and planets revolved around the Earth. The phases looked similar to what he saw on Earth’s Moon each month.

This was evidence that Venus orbited the Sun, not the Earth.

Other observers also sketched the phases of Venus through their telescopes.

You can see the phases of Venus for yourself.

Through binoculars or a telescope, Venus appears as a waning crescent in January and by March you'll see it as a larger but very slender crescent.

Earthly observers have been enjoying views of Venus for centuries. In 1962, Mariner 2 became the first successful mission to visit Venus. Since then, there have been more than a dozen orbiters and landers to visit Venus.

That's all for this month.
I'm scientist fenil .

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.