The Perseid meteor shower is underway and should reach its peak during the next 24 hours. Forecasters say the best time to look is during the dark hours before dawn on Tuesday, August 12th. An 86% full moon will interefere though the Moon will set a couple of hours after midnight. That’s when the Perseids could appear in numbers as … Read the rest of this article
Perseid Meteors 2008
August 7, 2008
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Meade mySKY Personal Planetarium
August 3, 2008
Meade is introducing the $399 mySKY, a GPS-based point and shoot personal planetarium that can locate and identify 30,000 celestial objects and display sky maps, videos, images, and multimedia presentations about them on a built-in full-color LCD screen. The Meade mySKY lets you identify and find 30,000 objects in the sky – planets, stars, nebulae, galaxies, and more.
Partial Lunar Eclipse: August 16 2008
August 1, 2008
This month sees the second of two lunar eclipses this year (the first eclipse was in February). This month’s eclipse is, however, only a partial eclipse. August’s eclipse details are shown below. Times are in UT. The diagram (slightly reduced in size) was created with LunarPhase Pro.
In a Total Lunar Eclipse the Full Moon passes into … Read the rest of this article
Sky at Night: July 2008 – Rise of the Phoenix
July 30, 2008
July 2008 – Rise of the Phoenix: Patrick Moore has an update on the NASA spacecraft Phoenix’s mission to Mars. After a month on the planet’s surface it has sent back unique images of the frozen ice caps. Chris Lintott travels to Tucson, Arizona, from where the NASA Phoenix team are operating the lander. He finds out how the spacecraft … Read the rest of this article
Sky at Night: June 2008 – the Battle of the Giants
June 30, 2008
June 2008 – The Battle of the Giants: Sir Patrick Moore finds out more about our two largest gas giants – Jupiter and Saturn. Dr Chris Lintott has the latest news from the Phoenix probe on Mars.… Read the rest of this article
Space Tourism News
June 4, 2008
The era of Space Tourism began on April 28, 2001 when Denis Tito was launched into space in a Russian Soyuz capsule. Tito, a multi-millionaire reputed to have paid $20 million for the trip, proved that traveling beyond Earth’s gravity was not just the province of a select few, but that anyone with drive, determination – and at that point … Read the rest of this article
Sky at Night: May 2008 – We Just Don’t Know
May 31, 2008
August 2008 – Double Vision: Sir Patrick Moore celebrates the 666th edition of the programme, discussing some of the big, still unanswered questions with a panel of experts.… Read the rest of this article
Celestron SkyScout Personal Planetarium
May 30, 2008
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