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Events listed below, are mostly of general or scientific interest.
They are events people can often be part of them. |
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Grand Canyon Star Party 2006 (tucsonastronomy.org) Grand Canyon Star Party 2006. |
| June 21 |
Summer Solstice (wikipedia).
Solstice in astronomy is the moment Earth tilts at its greatest angular distance towards or away from the Sun.
The amount of sunlight received for the Earth as a whole is nearly the same throughout the year. Seasons are caused by the tilt of the Earth, which causes one hemisphere to receive more solar energy each day, at the expense of solar energy received by the other hemisphere. The solstices mark the points of greatest imbalance in energy received by the different hemispheres.
The dates of the winter solstice and summer solstice are reversed for the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
Solstice (ac-orleans-tours.fr) Etymology (francais).
Activities all around the world happen at the solstice, as well as a lot of momument commemorate solstices in a way or an other.
Stonehenge (wikipedia).
Stonehenge recent history
Archaeoastronomy and Stonehenge
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RAS Star Party (Riverside Astronomy Society, Riverside California). |
| June 24 |
ASOD Star party (Astronomy Society of the Desert, Coachella Valley, California). Location: Sawmill Trailhead. |
| July 8 |
RAS Meeting (Riverside Astronomy Society, Riverside California). |
| July 21 |
RAS Star Party (Riverside Astronomy Society, Riverside California). |
| July 22 |
ASOD Star party (Astronomy Society of the Desert, Coachella Valley, California). Location: Sawmill Trailhead. |
| August 12 |
RAS Meeting (Riverside Astronomy Society, Riverside California). |
| August 19 |
ASOD Star party (Astronomy Society of the Desert, Coachella Valley, California). Location: Sawmill Trailhead. |
| August 25 |
RAS Star Party (Riverside Astronomy Society, Riverside California). |
| September 9 |
RAS Meeting (Riverside Astronomy Society, Riverside California). |
| September 22 |
RAS Star Party (Riverside Astronomy Society, Riverside California). |
| September 23 |
ASOD Star party (Astronomy Society of the Desert, Coachella Valley, California). Location: Sawmill Trailhead. |
| October 7 |
RAS Meeting (Riverside Astronomy Society, Riverside California). |
| October 13 |
ASOD Meeting (Astronomy Society of the Desert, Coachella Valley, California). |
| October 19-22 |
RAS Star Party (Riverside Astronomy Society, Riverside California). Nightfall Anza Borrego. |
| October 21 |
ASOD Star party (Astronomy Society of the Desert, Coachella Valley, California). Location: Sawmill Trailhead. |
| November 4 |
RAS Meeting (Riverside Astronomy Society, Riverside California). |
| November 10 |
ASOD Meeting (Astronomy Society of the Desert, Coachella Valley, California). |
| November 17 |
RAS Star Party (Riverside Astronomy Society, Riverside California). |
| November 18 |
ASOD Star party ASOD (Astronomy Society of the Desert, Coachella Valley, California). Location: Coachella Valley Preserve. |
| December 2 |
RAS Meeting (Riverside Astronomy Society, Riverside California). |
| December 8 |
ASOD Meeting ASOD (Astronomy Society of the Desert, Coachella Valley, California). |
| December 15 |
RAS Star Party (Riverside Astronomy Society, Riverside California). |
| December 16 |
ASOD Star party ASOD (Astronomy Society of the Desert, Coachella Valley, California). Location: Coachella Valley Preserve. |
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Today in history. Some interesting events. |
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Historical events, as well as future historical events, such as spacecrafts journey. |
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2006 June 12 |
Good visibility for ISS (esa.int). It will orbits overhead, up to fours times per night. Twice per year, in June and December, the Sun, the Earth and the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) are aligned for several days such that the station does not pass through the Earth's shadow, with the result that it is continuously illuminated by sunlight.
Example of visibility (ESA / Heavens-Above). for our location.
Pass details: Whole Sky Chart (ESA / Heavens-Above). for our location.
Pass details: Detailed Star Chart (ESA / Heavens-Above).
Ground track (ESA / Heavens-Above).
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2006 June 4 |
Venus Express’ nominal science phase should begins on 4 June (ESA).
Venus Express (ESA).
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1980 July 18 |
India launch its first satellite without any help from another nation Rohini (csre.iitb.ac.in).
ISRO (wikipedia) Indian Space Research Organisation.
ISRO (ISRO) Indian Satellites program.
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1972 August 21 |
Orbiting Astronomical ObservatoryOAO-3 (Copernicus) (wikipedia) was launched. It was part of a group of 4 satellites. Among them two failled, OAO-1 failled three days after launch, unfortunately even before its scientific equipments could be operational. OAO-B failed at launch time.
OAO-3 has been the most successful and has been operational until February 1981.
These type of satellites were the precursors of the Hubble Space Telescope. They carried telescopes and did great experiment in the UV range of frequency.
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1969 July 20 |
Apollo 11 (history.nasa.gov) landed on the moon.
On July 21, Neil A. Armstrong and “Buzz” Aldrin where the first human to walk on another celestial object, also beeing able to enjoy a view of the earth from antoher celestial object.
They stay about 21 hours on the lunar surface and returned 46 pounds of lunar rocks. While they were getting all the media attention, Michael Collins was orbiting alone the moon.
The purpose of the Apollo 11 mission (spaceflight.nasa.gov) was to land men on the lunar surface and to return them safely to Earth.
Apollo 11 (science.ksc.nasa.gov) details.
Apollo 11 (lpi.usra.edu) Lunar and Planetary Institute page.
Apollo 11 Wikipedia article.
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1868 August 18 |
Evidence of Helium (wikipedia) has been detected by French astronomer Pierre Janssen (wikipedia) during a total solar eclipse in Guntur, India. He assumed the line to be Sodium.
On October 20 (1868), English astronomer Norman Lockyer (plicht.de) observed a similar yellow line in the solar spectrum, He assumed it was an element unknown on our planet Earth.
He and English chemist Edward Frankland named the element with the Greek word for the Sun, (helios).
Helium was unknown on Earth until March 26, 1895. British chemist William Ramsay found it while thinking to find argon gaz.
Norman Lockyer, was also the founder of the magazine "Nature".
Pierre Jules César Janssen (hao.ucar.edu) Biography.
(cartage.org.lb) Biography.
(1911encyclopedia.org) Biography.
Helium (education.jlab.org) details.
Joseph Norman Lockyer (www-solar.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk) Biography.
Joseph Norman Lockyer (wikipedia).
Joseph Norman Lockyer (hao.ucar.edu) (High Altitude Observatory).
The Norman Lockyer Observatory (projects.ex.ac.uk) & James Lockyer Planetarium.
Norman Lockyer (witcombe.sbc.edu) interest and study about Stonehenge (UK).
Norman Lockyer (cartage.org.lb) Bibliography.
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1868 June 29 |
George Ellery Hale (mwoa.org) founder of Mt. Wilson Observatory (mtwilson.edu) was born in Chicago. He died on February 21, 1938.
Mount Wilson Observatory Association(mwoa.org).
Mount Wilson Observatory (mtwilson.edu) Site.
He invented the spectroheliograph. He was the main person (aas.org) regarding the creation of Caltech, as well as the Mt Palomar observatory (astro.caltech.edu), which the 200 inches telescope (cr.nps.gov) is named after him. Mt Palomar observatory overview (astro.caltech.edu).
George Ellery Hale (astro.uchicago.edu)
George Ellery Hale (wikipedia).
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1864 August 5 |
Giovanni Donati (deepimpact.eso.org) did the first spectroscopic observations of a comet (Comet Tempel).
Giovanni Donati (chabotspace.org).
Giovanni Batista Donati (encyclopedia.jrank.org).
Later Sir William Huggins (1868) used Giovanni Donati information.
Les grands astronomes (astrosurf.com), astronomers timeline (in french).
Chronologie générale (ac-nice.fr), de l'antiquité à nos jours. Excellent time line (in french).
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1818 August 1 |
(Some source say August 11) Maria Mitchell (physicsandastronomy.vassar.edu) was born. It seems she was the first woman professor of astronomy in the US.
Short biography (pocanticohills.org).
Short biography (astr.ua.edu).
Biography (cr.nps.gov).
Longer Biography (wikipedia) As of June 19, it claim, she was born on August 11.
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1812 June 9 |
AstronomerJohann Gottfried Galle (wikipedia) was born in Germany. He died in 1910 on July 10.
He was the first astronomer to have seen Neptune and used calculations made by a french mathematicien, Urbain Le Verrier (wikipedia). Neptune is the only planet discovered based on mathematical prediction rather than regular observations.
Galileo's astronomical drawings show that he had first observed Neptune on December 27, 1612, and again on January 27, 1613. Meanwhile both times he thought having found a fixed star.
Galle found the planet Neptune within 1 degree of Urbain le Verrier prediction on September 23, 1846.
Neptune discovery (wikipedia) had some controversy. Another mathematician from UK John Couch Adams (wikipedia), did some prediction about a year earlier, but both men where unaware of the work of each other. John Adams predictions were about 10 degrees off.
A conflict emerged between UK and France, regarding who discovered Neptune, Later it has been decided to give credit to both mathmaticians.
Hoever, after some more in depth reading and some documents finding in 1998 (no error), it has been decided that Adams did not in fact deserve equal credit with Le Verrier (Scientific American).
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1730 June 26 |
Charles Messier (seds.org) was born. He died on April 12 1817.
He is famous for his Catalog of objects (lasam.ca) that are not comets.
Charles Messier (wikipedia).
The name "messier" (astro-rennes.com) was in old french a harvest keeper, the person in charge of the wheat or oat harvest.
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I like to build hardware projects and connect them to computers, to do data acquisitions and other things.
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I belong to the following astronomy societies: RAS. ASOD
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Space |
Astronomy picture of the day. NASA
Hubble space telescope, picture of the day (image and video).
ESA European Space Agency.
Picture from the OSEI (Operational Significant Event Imagery). These images usually represent environment change events.
Earth motion for Coachella Valley.
 seismology for Coachella Valley (Southern California).
Light pollution prevention start at home.
The night sky in the World. Satellite monitoring of the artificial night sky brightness and the stellar visibility.
IDAInternational Dark-Sky Association.
 Auroral Activity (Northern Hemisphere). NOAA Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) continually monitor the power flux carried by the protons and electrons that produce aurora in the atmosphere.
 Auroral Activity Southern Hemisphere.
 GOES Solar X-ray Imager, provide full-disk images of the Sun once a minute in the 0.6-6 nm range with 5 arcsec pixels.
It allow real-time prediction of solar-terrestrial disturbances.
more info.
 SOHO Pick of the Week. Courtesy of SOHO/EIT and SOHO/LASCO consortium. SOHO is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.
 latest SOHO images171.
 latest SOHO images284.
CosmicopiaMore about Cosmic Rays (educational).
 UCAR Windows to the Universe is a learning system covering the Earth and Space sciences for use by the general public.
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