A casual observer may watch the sky at night and see 3 to 5 sporadic meteors per hour more if you are in a dark location. However, on some nights, this number may increase markedly, and on projecting the paths of the meteors back, we find that many appear to radiate...
Mercury Is low in the morning sky this month and lost in twilight mid-month. It is not easy to see this month, as it transitions from the morning to evening sky. On the 1st Mercury was a hand-span above the eastern horizon an hour before sunrise and in line with...
Apus is a faint constellation in the southern sky. It represents the bird of paradise, found in New Guinea. The name was given to this sky area at the end of the sixteenth century. It was first documented in a 17th-century celestial atlas included in Johann...
Meteors are also known by many people as “shooting of falling stars”. They originate when the Earth passes near or through the leftover debris from a comet or asteroid’s orbit and those debris particles hit Earth’s atmosphere and burn up. When many of these meteors...
On this day October 10 in 1846 – British astronomer, William Lassell discovered Neptune’s Moon Triton. This discovery came only 17 days after the planet itself was discovered. After Herschel had learned of the discovery of Neptune – he contacted his...
