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   Night Sky Calendar - Northern Hemisphere
November 2009
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02 - Full Moon at 19:14 UT
05 - Taurid (south) meteor shower peaks. Active between 25 Sept and 25 Nov.
000 Associated with Comet 2P/Encke.
09 - Moon near Mars (morning sky) at 14h UT. Mag. +0.3.
12 - Taurid (north) meteor shower peaks. May produce the occasional bright fireball.
17 - Leonid meteor shower peaks at 9h UT. Arises from debris ejected by
000 Comet Tempel-Tuttle in 1533. Expect about 25 to 30 meteors per hour under
000 dark skies. Predictions of enhanced activity between 21-22h UT on 17 Nov
000 (favours sky watchers in Asia).
21 - Alpha Monocerotid meteor shower peaks at 15:25 UT. A usually minor
000 shower active 15-25 Nov. Radiant is near Procyon. Predictions of enhanced
000 activity this year. Timing favours Far East Asia, Australia and across the
000 Pacific to Alaska.

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The photo was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and shows a detail of the nebula. This close-up shows a dense cloud of dust and gas, a stellar nursery full of embryonic stars. This cloud is about 8 light-years away from the nebula's central star, not shown in this picture. Located in Sagitarius, the nebula's name means "divided into three lobes".
 




 

The man behind the glowing gas and dust...

When I was young, I always have a dream to climb up the sky to go to outer reach of the solar system and beyond, to see how it feel like living in a distant world. Now, I know it's a ridiculous dream. From that point, my interest on the world of astronomy was growing, and now living in the cyber world, where huge resources of scientific knowledge on this subject is widely available, has opened my eye even wider on astronomy. Intricate structure of the universe, myriad of unknown worlds, far-off galaxies, enigmatic dark matter, etc are some of the examples of the beauty of astronomy, a scientific study enveloped by human desire to unveil the secret of universe.

This little blog is published as a part of the realisation of the interest. The blog was born two years ago. At first birth, it contains topics on my surfing habit on the internet with varied subjects to post. But soon after following the latest breakthroughs in the world of astronomy and all tidbids around it, then I decided to transform the blog into a total brand new look and feel, also with the specific subject of interest to post. Since then, news on human achievements in astronomy circulated on the net is the main topic I posted on my blog. Also, when a time comes for me to look at the night sky, I surely post the activity on this blog. Because I dont have a decent telescope with great magnification, I cannot talk about the finding of nebula, far-off galaxies with the telescope for now.

and finally... A clear sky for everyone...!!

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The Oort cloud, is a postulated spherical cloud of comets situated about 50,000 to 100,000 AU from the Sun. This is approximately 1000 times the distance from the Sun to Pluto or roughly one light year, almost a quarter of the distance from the Sun to Proxima Centauri, the star nearest the Sun. The Oort cloud would have its inner disk at the ecliptic from the Kuiper belt. Although no direct observations have been made of such a cloud, it is believed to be the source of most or all comets entering the inner solar system (some short-period comets may come from the Kuiper belt), based on observations of the orbits of comets.
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