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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... March . ... Posted on May 20, 2015 | No Comments If you missed the Lyrids meteor shower in April, starting of May you had another chance to see some shooting stars as the Eta Aquarids meteor shower peaks on the [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... 3 Comments Already the year 2015 is proving to be a great year for stargazing with planets, comets and meteorites gracing the skies but prepare for March as it brings a тАШmicro [ ] . ...

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In 2007-2008, the planet Uranus will reach one of its annual equinoxes for the first time since 1966. As a consequence, its five major satellites orbiting in the equatorial plane will undergo a season of mutual eclipses and occultations very similar to the one that Jupiter's Galilean satellites undergo every 6 years. ... Some of these events occur when Uranus is at conjunction, or the satellite is transiting or too close to the limb of the planet. ... Complete table of events . ...

... A Lucky Lunar Eclipse . ... 3.04.1996 . ... Credit: Andy Steere Explanation: Tonight's full moon would normally washout the spectacle of Comet Hyakutake's lovely tail , even for those far from light polluted skies. ... Lunar eclipses are caused when the Moon passes through the Earth's shadow . ... Weather permitting, the eclipse will be visible for all those comet and moon watchers lucky enough to be on the Earth's nightside . ... April . ... 1995 1996 . ... Publications with keywords: lunar eclipse...

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... Munching on Lunar Cheese . ... Rarely have most of us really watched a lunar eclipse. Let's observe the lunar eclipse this month and see what the shadow-play can teach us about Earth and its little mate. ... My grandparents came out, we sat on bales of hay in a field, ate our hot dogs and roasted marshmallows, and watched a huge full Moon fall into Earth's ruddy red shadow. ... The ancient Greeks knew this, too, and they saw Earth's circular shadow on the Moon during lunar eclipses. ...

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HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #1471 PERIOD COVERED: 0000Z (UTC) 09/07/95 - 0000Z (UTC) 09/08/95 Daily Status Report as of 251/0000Z 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed GHRS/1 5417 (A Search for the Physical Processes on Jupiter) The High Resolution Spectrograph (Side One) was used as part of a program to observe atomic hydrogen emission at different latitudes and longitudes on the planet Jupiter. A wave calibration and sky background observations were made. ...

Next: Characteristics of the Up: The Epsilon Aurigae Previous: The Epsilon Aurigae . ... Epsilon Aurig? is an F0 Ia star with an enigmatic companion which partially eclipses the visible star for 2 years every 27.1 years. ... The eclipse light curve has a long, flat minimum (Figure ), implying that the secondary is not appreciably convex. ... We develop hydrostatic models for the Aurig? secondary in Section D.3 and present synthetic eclipse light curves calculated using these models in Section D.4. ...

... Solar Eclipses in 2009 : . There are two eclipses of the Sun (an annular eclipse on January 26 and a total eclipse on July 21-22 ) in 2009. ... Annular Solar Eclipse . ... Annular Eclipse of the Sun on January 26, 2009 . ... Beginning of northern limit of umbra . ... Beginning of center line; central eclipse begins . ... Central eclipse at local apparent noon .