Sentences with phrase «skywatchers in»

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.

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 ×.

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 northern hemisphere should enjoy a rare treat in the next few weeks, as Comet C / 2011 L4 PANSTARRS enters the evening sky.

Sunday lived up to its name this past weekend, as countless skywatchers in the western U.S. took in a rare annular solar eclipse.

SAN FRANCISCO — Before sunrise on 4 January, skywatchers in North America may see hundreds of meteors near the Big Dipper.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Skywatchers are in for a treat this weekend, when the Perseid meteor shower reaches full throttle.

This year, the Leonid meteor shower should treat skywatchers to beween 10 and 15 meteors per hour, NASA meteor expert Bill Cook, head of the Meteoroid Environment Office at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, told Space.com.

If those predictions are correct, skywatchers will see meteors created by debris left behind by Comet Tempel - Tuttle in 1567.

Indoor viewing options If skywatchers don't feel like going out in the cold, both NASA's Meteorite Environment Office and the Slooh Community Observatory will broadcast the shower live.

Thanks to the efforts of amateur skywatchers, those of us who missed these aurorae can still share in their beauty.

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.