Eclipses, Conjunctions, Alignments and Celestial Phenomena

A now a lunar eclipse

A partial lunar eclipse will occur on Saturday, 28 Oct, 2023. It will be visible in Asia, Russia, Africa, Europe, Antarctica, & Oceania.

The eclipse will begin at 7:36 p.m. GMT and end at 8:53 p.m. It will be a short eclipse lasting for ~75 min. 1/

Map: timeanddate
Click to expand...
https://twitter.com/x/status/1717560464073269591

Don't miss a partial lunar eclipse of October's Full Hunter's Moon this week​


Next weekend, the moon will pass into the shadow of the Earth, triggering a partial lunar eclipse visible in full from Europe, including Russia, Italy, Germany and the UK, and African countries like South Africa, Egypt and Algeria, according to Time and Date.

Beginning on Saturday, Oct. 28, and stretching into Sunday, Oct. 29, the partial lunar will occur during October's full moon, the Hunter's Moon. Skywatchers in New York and other U.S. states will only get to see this latter penumbral stage of the Oct. 28 partial eclipse, as during the earlier stages, the moon will be below the horizon. The end of the eclipse will be visible from a few states in the U.S., like New York, Alaska and North Carolina, but not to its full extent.

www.space.com

Don't miss a partial lunar eclipse of October's Full Hunter's Moon this week

The moon will pass into the shadow of the Earth on Saturday (Oct. 28).
www.space.com www.space.com
 
I heart-eyed the recent two posts (Jupiter face and the sun's coronal hole) because at this point:

Bring on the changes !

You can see the signs all around, earthquakes are rampimg up, scientists don't understand the sun's behavior, weird sudden weather, "people" going off suddenly, pseudo/ imminent wwiii....

All of a sudden, earth changes seem more appetizing.
 
MERCURY-MARS CONJUNCTION: Mercury and Mars are converging for a conjunction in the constellation Libra. The action is happening too close to the sun to see with the human eye, but coronagraphs on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) are getting a great view of the action:​
conjunction.gif

At closest approach on Oct. 29th, the two planets will be only 20 arcminutes apart--a remarkable pair. If this were happening in a dark night sky, it would be headline news.

In a few months, it will be headline news. Mars and Mercury will loop around the sun for another even closer conjunction on January 27, 2024. During the event, the planets will be only 12 arcminutes apart--almost as close as Jupiter and Saturn were during the Great Conjunction of 2020. Both planets will be visible to the naked eye in the morning sky just before sunrise.


Keith Strong vía X

SOMETHING YOU CAN'T SEE ANYWHERE ELSE! A conjunction between Mars (upper) & Mercury (lower) so close to the Sun that Earth-bound telescopes cannot see them. The SOHO LASCO coronagraphs block out the Sun so they can be seen on the far side of the Sun: the greatest distance from us
20231029_091426.png
​
 
Not by aligment. Just a celestial thing, to which I found it curious.

Translated from Turkish with deepl
Still searching for stars who disappeared in 1952
Three stars seen 71 years ago during research at the Palomar Observatory in California, USA, were never seen again. The whereabouts of the three disappearing stars are still unknown.


On July 19, 1952, the Palomar Observatory was taking multiple photographs of the same region of the sky to image objects such as asteroids.
Click to expand...
At around 8.52 pm that evening, the light of three stars gathered together was captured photographically. The quadrants (measures of brightness) of the stars seen were measured at 15.

But at 9:45 p.m. the same night, another photo of the same part of the sky where the cluster was seen showed that the stars had disappeared.
Click to expand...
The scientists then continued to look up into the sky but could not see the cluster again.

Stars can explode or have brief flashes, but they don't just disappear.

But the evidence was clear. The three stars were clearly visible in the first image but absent in the second.

The question of what caused the stars to darken so quickly has been pursued.
Click to expand...
First idea: It was not three stars, it was one star

According to the first possibility mentioned in the study, there was only one star in the image, not three. Perhaps the star flared strongly for a short period of time. As this happened, a stellar-mass black hole passed between it and us, causing the flare to be captured in three images.


Second idea They were not stars
Another idea is that the ensemble seen was not a star cluster.

The three bright spots are located within 10 arcseconds of each other. If they are three separate objects, then something may have triggered them to glow.

Given the 50-minute time spans over which the images were captured, the speed of light and causality suggest that these objects are no more than 6 astronomical units apart.

These suggest that they could be objects from the Oort Cloud (a spherical, icy armor orbiting the solar system), where an event caused them to flash at the same time.

Third idea: They are not objects
Click to expand...
A third idea, according to the study, is that they are not actually objects.

The Palomar Observatory is located very close to the deserts of New Mexico, the site of nuclear weapons testing in the US.

Radioactive dust from the tests may have contaminated the plaques and created bright spots in some images but not in others.

Scientists say they are not sure and need to study the sky more, as they continue to explore the possibilities of missing stars.
Click to expand...
 

Attachments

  • Screenshot_20231030_230032.jpg
    Screenshot_20231030_230032.jpg
    54.2 KB · Views: 2
Erika#PlanetaryDefense vía X

On the night of November 2-3 the Earth will pass between the Sun and Jupiter, which means the planet will be at its closest to the Earth around these dates.
This cosmic event is known as the opposition of Jupiter. ​

It's the best time of the year to see the planet with the naked eye as it also reaches its peak brightness.

On this occasion, Jupiter will be around 33 million km (20.5 million miles) closer to us than average.

The planet will be visible with the naked eye throughout the night as it lies opposite the Sun. It will rise in the east around sunset, reaching its highest point in the sky around midnight and set in the west at dawn.
20231101_233240.jpg

https://twitter.com/x/status/1712210762800812487


​
 

Meteor shower guide: Up next the Taurids and Leonids​


The 1st branch of the Taurid meteor showers is set to peak today. Southern Taurid meteors have been blazing bright across the night sky since late September, but around the peak (8:47 p.m. ET), is when we will have the best chance to catch a glimpse.
meteorshowers.org
Click to expand...
https://twitter.com/x/status/1721109448310116531

October into early November … the South and North Taurids​

Predicted peak: The South Taurids’ predicted** peak is November 6, 2023, at 0:47 UTC. The North Taurids’ predicted** peak is November 13, 2023, at 0:21 UTC. Both the South and North Taurids don’t have very definite peaks. They ramble along in October and November and are especially noticeable from late October into early November, when they overlap.

earthsky.org

| EarthSky

earthsky.org earthsky.org
 
SUPERNOVA

This video shows a unique time-lapse of the supernova in galaxy NGC 2525. The supernova is captured by Hubble in exquisite detail within this galaxy in the lower left portion of the frame. It appears as a very bright star located on the outer edge of one of its beautiful swirling spiral arms. This new and unique time-lapse of Hubble images shows the once bright supernova initially outshining the brightest stars in the galaxy, before fading into obscurity during the telescope’s observations.

This time-lapse consists of observations taken over the course of one year, from February 2018 to February 2019.

NGC 2525 is located nearly 70 million light-years from Earth and is part of the constellation of Puppis in the southern hemisphere.

Hubble captured this series of images of NGC2525 in 2018 as part of one of its major investigations; measuring the expansion rate of the Universe, which can help answer fundamental questions about our Universe’s very nature.

©️ ESA/Hubble & NASA

https://twitter.com/x/status/1722021130314092697

Scientists have finally confirmed the presence of infrared auroras, glowing in the northern regions of Uranus.

This paper is the culmination of 30 years of auroral study at Uranus, which has finally revealed the infrared aurora.
https://twitter.com/x/status/1721244463748514281

​
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom