Sentences with word «skywatcher»

Sunday lived up to its name this past weekend, as countless skywatchers in the western U.S. took in a rare annular solar eclipse.
When Venus crossed the Sun June 8, showing up as a clear black dot to the delight of millions of skywatchers around the world, astronomers noted something less obvious: The amount of sunlight reaching Earth dipped by 0.1 percent for a few hours.
From now to 2040, for example, skywatchers around the globe can witness 15 such events.
This year, the Leonid meteor shower should treat skywatchers to beween 10 and 15 meteors per hour, a NASA meteor expert says
The comet was spotted on April 4, 1861 by A.E. Thatcher, an amateur skywatcher in New York City, earning him kudos from the noted astronomer Sir John Herschel.
On Jan. 26 from 7 - 9 p.m., meet other skywatchers at Little River Regional Park in Rougemont, just north of Durham, and see lots of astronomical sights.
SN1006 (A.D. 1006): This stellar explosion surpassed Venus in brightness and captivated skywatchers worldwide.
To celebrate the last transit of Venus in the 21st century, astronomers and skywatchers came together in many sites around the world
While Earth and Saturn's rings will be in exactly the same plane on 10 August and 4 September 2009, Saturn will be too close to the Sun to be a good target for skywatchers.
Thanks to powerful skywatchers like the Hubble Space Telescope and similar devices, we've managed to discover a lot of extremely...
The great achievements of the Maya were made by detailed observations of generations of skywatchers without the advantages of modem technology.
We've seen Peahats and Skywatchers so far, and this week's image features a charming robot from Skyward Sword.
When they transit the face of the Sun, they are often visible without magnification to skywatchers using safe viewing techniques (looking directly at the Sun can cause permanent eye damage).
The tail end of 2017 was packed with interesting asteroid sightings and near - misses that gave skywatchers a reason to look up, but the biggest threat from above in 2018 might be manmade.
SAN FRANCISCO — Before sunrise on 4 January, skywatchers in North America may see hundreds of meteors near the Big Dipper.
Skywatchers have been trying to gauge the sun - Earth distance for thousands of years.
From ancient times, skywatchers had wondered at the eerie dim glowing band of light visible across the nighttime sky (until modern light pollution drowned it out).
Skywatchers are in for a treat this weekend, when the Perseid meteor shower reaches full throttle.
To find it, skywatchers will need a clear sky, ideally be away from the lights of towns and cities and have a good western horizon.
Skywatchers in the northern hemisphere should enjoy a rare treat in the next few weeks, as Comet C / 2011 L4 PANSTARRS enters the evening sky.
For centuries, skywatchers have reported seeing and simultaneously hearing meteors whizzing overhead, which doesn't make sense given that light travels roughly 800,000 times as fast as sound.
The skywatchers employed the 14 - watt laser to generate a fake star.
Since the year A.D. 1000, skywatchers have seen five of our galaxy's stars die in brilliant explosions.
Skywatchers in the UK and Western Europe should cast their gaze low in the southern sky late into the evening of Thursday 6 July to see the 12 - day - old waxing gibbous Moon in conjunction with ringed planet Saturn.
Skywatchers in the UK looking to the south - southeast shortly before midnight on Friday 9 June can see the rising full Moon just 2 1/2 degrees above Saturn, the pair fitting comfortably in the same field of view of binoculars and telescopes magnifying less than 20 ×.
While an occultation of the star occurs around 17h UT for observers in Japan, central Asia and the Middle East, skywatchers in the UK will have to settle for a near miss.
I love «informed stargazing» and I definitely think of myself as a skywatcher and amateur astrophotographer.
On P+P you'll find Merce Cunningham's Antic Meet, Trisha Brown's Glacial Decoy, and Robert Rauschenberg's Pelican, and on Open Space you'll find robbinschilds» Sonya and Layla Go Camping, Skywatchers» I Got a Truth to Tell, and a collaboration between Mohamad Bayoumi, Michael Ibrahim, and Mohannad Ghawanmeh.
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