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ozone_aurora
22 April 2022 18:16:01

Aside from a butt of jokes:-


Make Uranus mission your priority, Nasa told


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61155725.


 

Roger Parsons
26 April 2022 11:01:56

There's a lot to look for this week.

This Week's Sky at a Glance, April 22 – 30
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/this-weeks-sky-at-a-glance-april-22-30-2/



THURSDAY, APRIL 28
The Lyrid meteor shower should be active late tonight and late tomorrow might, though the shower's timing is less than ideal for North America. Best times to try watching are from about 11 p.m. until moonrise both nights, writes Bob King in Celebrate Spring with the Lyrids.

FRIDAY, APRIL 29
Venus-Jupiter conjunction. Set your alarm to get up and look low in the southeast about 60 to 45 minutes before your sunrise time. Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest objects after the Sun and Moon, are a spectacularly close ½° apart! On Sunday morning they'll be only a trace farther apart, with Jupiter now to Venus's upper right.


Clear skies!

Roger


RogerP
West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.
William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830
Roger Parsons
30 April 2022 17:43:55
Space Weather News for April 30, 2022
https://spaceweather.com 
https://www.spaceweatheralerts.com 

X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE: The sun produced another X-class solar flare today. Even though the responsible sunspot was located behind the edge of the sun, enough radiation reached our planet to cause a strong shortwave radio blackout.
Roger
RogerP
West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.
William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830
Viking3
04 May 2022 10:09:40

From Nature - see this fantastic time lapse taken by Perseverance Mars rover of Phobos eclipsing the Sun.


It's the third one down the page after the fire-loving fungus and South Africa flood pictures.


https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-022-01182-4/index.html


 


 


Keith
Aboyne, Aberdeenshire
135m asl
Roger Parsons
06 May 2022 07:56:01

Re Eclipses...

Observing the Lunar Eclipse 16th May

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/total-lunar-eclipse-16-may-2022/



https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/lunar-eclipse-guide



Clear skies!
Roger


RogerP
West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.
William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830
Roger Parsons
22 May 2022 16:18:39
Solar storms: "A big solar storm could fry the internet, but at least space weather forecasts would give us a day or two to prepare. Or maybe not, because physicists have just discovered a new kind of solar storm that strikes without notice." [Paywall]

Why the next big solar storm might hit Earth without warning
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433870-800-why-the-next-big-solar-storm-might-hit-earth-without-warning/ 

Roger
RogerP
West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.
William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830
Roger Parsons
29 May 2022 17:05:11

Make plans for the possible Tau Herculid meteor shower, which may
put on a strong outburst on the night of May 30-31.
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/best-meteor-showers-of-2022/


Also see:


https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/61617907


Roger


 


RogerP
West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.
William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830
Roger Parsons
30 May 2022 19:47:59


Make plans for the possible Tau Herculid meteor shower, which may
put on a strong outburst on the night of May 30-31.
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/best-meteor-showers-of-2022/


Also see:


https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/61617907


Roger


 


Originally Posted by: Roger Parsons 


 


Useful update....


Possible Meteor Outburst on May 30/31?


https://www.imo.net/possible-meteor-outburst-on-may-3031/


Roger


RogerP
West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.
William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830
Roger Parsons
06 June 2022 14:52:21

Moon stuff.... Gruithuisen Domes - The Independent

Nasa says it will investigate mysterious mounds on moon in Artemis mission
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/nasa-says-investigate-mysterious-mounds-082345208.html



Roger


RogerP
West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.
William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830
ozone_aurora
06 June 2022 16:56:19

Moon stuff.... Gruithuisen Domes - The Independent

Nasa says it will investigate mysterious mounds on moon in Artemis mission
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/nasa-says-investigate-mysterious-mounds-082345208.html

Roger

Originally Posted by: Roger Parsons 


Very interesting. They're formed by volcanic activity but different from mare forming volcanism. Wonder what age these were formed.

Gandalf The White
09 June 2022 11:47:11
The new James Webb space telescope has suffered slight damage from a tiny meteoroid - and there have been several other minor impacts already.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61744257 

Location: South Cambridgeshire
130 metres ASL
52.0N 0.1E


Roger Parsons
09 June 2022 15:43:42

The new James Webb space telescope has suffered slight damage from a tiny meteoroid - and there have been several other minor impacts already.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61744257

Originally Posted by: Gandalf The White 


I spotted that story, Peter. There's a lot of stuff swilling about up there and it does not have to be big to be a problem, given the kinetic energy involved. They have procedures in place to hopefully compensate for the occasional "dings" that will inevitably happen.


This kind of scenario was a popular story line in early 20cent Sci Fi - Heinlein etc.


"Dodson, Jarman and Jensen ship out on the Aes Triplex. Their first real mission is to help search for a missing research vessel, the Pathfinder, in the asteroid belt. They find it, but all aboard are dead, the unlucky victims of a fast-moving object that punctured the ship when the armored outer airlock door was open...."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Cadet



RogerP
West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.
William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830
Roger Parsons
14 June 2022 05:37:47
Turd 14th June 2022
MAGNIFICENT CME: Earlier today, an unusually slow solar flare hurled a magnificent CME into space. The explosion and its afterglow lasted nearly 8 hours. The CME could sideswipe Earth's magnetosphere later this week, producing minor geomagnetic storms

Arrival time of 0900 UT on June 15th? Glancing blow?

https://spaceweather.com/ 

Roger


RogerP
West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.
William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830
The Beast from the East
14 June 2022 10:17:41

Turd 14th June 2022
MAGNIFICENT CME: Earlier today, an unusually slow solar flare hurled a magnificent CME into space. The explosion and its afterglow lasted nearly 8 hours. The CME could sideswipe Earth's magnetosphere later this week, producing minor geomagnetic storms

Arrival time of 0900 UT on June 15th? Glancing blow?

https://spaceweather.com/

Roger

Originally Posted by: Roger Parsons 


Hopefully a full on blow. I'd like to see how the plebs cope without electricity for a few weeks


 


Purley, Surrey, 70m ASL

"We have some alternative facts for you"

Kelly-Ann Conway - former special adviser to the President
Viking3
20 June 2022 11:56:14
Check out this link - the chap managed to get a sequence of the International Space Station in transit across the sun. Great capture!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-61856975 
Keith
Aboyne, Aberdeenshire
135m asl
Roger Parsons
20 June 2022 12:18:26

Check out this link - the chap managed to get a sequence of the International Space Station in transit across the sun. Great capture!

Originally Posted by: Viking3 

">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-61856975


Thanks for that, V-3. Really impressive.


Nearest thing like that I've observed myself [no photo] was an RAF Tornado superimposed on the Sun on a solarscope.  


Roger


RogerP
West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.
William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830
Viking3
20 June 2022 12:23:59


">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-61856975

Originally Posted by: Roger Parsons 


Thanks for that, V-3. Really impressive.


Nearest thing like that I've observed myself [no photo] was an RAF Tornado superimposed on the Sun on a solarscope. 


Roger



 


What a shame not to get that photo Roger! I presume it was over in the blink of an eye?


Keith
Aboyne, Aberdeenshire
135m asl
Roger Parsons
09 July 2022 10:19:12

NASA will release the first full-colour images from the James Webb Space Telescope next week. [12th] Watch out for it!
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/first-images-from-nasa-s-webb-space-telescope-coming-soon



The next perigee full Moon will occur on 13 July 2022, making it a 'supermoon'.


https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/supermoon-what-when-next/


Heads up on 13th!

Roger


RogerP
West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.
William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830
lanky
09 July 2022 20:15:50


NASA will release the first full-colour images from the James Webb Space Telescope next week. [12th] Watch out for it!
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/first-images-from-nasa-s-webb-space-telescope-coming-soon



The next perigee full Moon will occur on 13 July 2022, making it a 'supermoon'.


https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/supermoon-what-when-next/


Heads up on 13th!

Roger


Originally Posted by: Roger Parsons 


BBC2 Super Telescope : Mssion To The Edge Of The Universe


Thursday 14th July 20:00-21:00


Story of the James Webb Telexcope and hopefully the new images


Martin
Richmond, Surrey
Roger Parsons
11 July 2022 07:38:22


BBC2 Super Telescope : Mssion To The Edge Of The Universe


Thursday 14th July 20:00-21:00


Story of the James Webb Telexcope and hopefully the new images


Originally Posted by: lanky 


Thanks for that, Lanky. Here's their link:


https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2022/28/super-telescope


R


RogerP
West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.
William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830
ozone_aurora
12 July 2022 07:29:16

First full-colour picture from James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been released:-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62122859


 

Roger Parsons
12 July 2022 08:11:34


First full-colour picture from James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been released:-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62122859


 


Originally Posted by: ozone_aurora 


“My God -- it's full of stars! - Dave Bowman.” [Arthur C. Clarke - 2001 - A Space Odyssey]


Roger


RogerP
West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.
William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830
llamedos
12 July 2022 08:19:31


First full-colour picture from James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been released:-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62122859


 


Originally Posted by: ozone_aurora 

How incredible is that .....


"Life with the Lions"

TWO Moderator
Roger Parsons
19 July 2022 14:29:51

A bit of slightly different Solar news...
"The impact of a “snake-like filament” from the Sun, which Nasa predicts will happen on 19 July, will be a “direct hit” according to Dr Tamitha Skov, adding that we should “expect signal disruptions on Earth’s nightside”. It is also possible that aurora might be visible in some regions of the Earth."

Solar storm about to strike Earth in a ‘direct hit’ - Independent Mon 18th
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/news/solar-storm-strike-earth-direct-101857526.html



Roger


RogerP
West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.
William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830
Roger Parsons
21 July 2022 18:10:55
Space Weather:
SOLAR TSUNAMI AND CME: An explosion on the sun during the early hours of July 21st created a solar tsunami wave and hurled a CME toward Earth. The CME's arrival on July 23rd could spark minor to moderate geomagnetic storms with auroras at high latitudes
https://spaceweather.com/ 

Roger
RogerP
West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.
William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830

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