Space / Celestial Events for 2004

Tue Feb 03, 2004 6:30 pm by Indy11

January 4 and 25 - as you know already, landing of Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity. But on Jan 2, what you may not have noticed is that the Stardust spacecraft met up with Comet Wild 2 to gather bits of comet material and is now set to return to Earth in 2 years' time.

March - 24 Venus will appear at is most prominent and brightest closely followed by Jupiter.

Mid March - Early April - Mercury, Venus,Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be making simultaneous appearances in the twilight

May - Messenger probe blasts off for Mercury.

June 8 - Sun partially eclipsed by Venus (Venus transit of the Sun) .. visible, with proper professional grade sun filtering by the naked eye (otherwise will be blinding) at Midday for Europe and at sunrise in the eastern parts of US and Canada.

July 1 - Cassini reaches Saturn and will drop a probe into the Titan moon's atmosphere to sample it.

August 11 Perseid Meteor shower will be on a moonless night.

October 27 - Total lunar eclipse visible in North America

December - The five planets from March - April will make a repeat simultaneous appearances in the pre-dawn

December 13 Geminids Meteor shower will be on a moonless night.

Tue Feb 03, 2004 6:37 pm by H.Q. Victor

The meteor showers would definitely be worth seeing. I have a good 35mm cam with tripod and plan on trying it out.

Finalday

Until that final day. /Keith Green\ (1953-1983)

Wed Feb 04, 2004 1:14 am by Tawakalna

good luck photographing clouds.

all these celestial events are total washouts, i never get to see any of them, it's either cloudy or raining or i'm asleep. Now I just don't get worked up about them, there's no point.

Wed Feb 04, 2004 2:30 am by kimk

lucky person you got a telescope.

i don't. i wish i had one tho..

Wed Feb 04, 2004 3:18 am by H.Q. Victor

@Taw, I'm about 20 miles south of atlanta and no city lights around which gives me a good night sky view. I'm hoping for a clear sky then. The stars are real bright at night.

Finalday

Until that final day. /Keith Green\ (1953-1983)

Wed Feb 04, 2004 6:43 am by [steel]

the gemenids were good last year
saw them on the way back from the pub and stayed up for hours on the boat drinking coffee with whisky watching them

Wed Feb 04, 2004 3:04 pm by Esquilax

I wonder where the best region for viewing the meteor showers will be? Probably not Australia (as usual)

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Wed Feb 04, 2004 4:05 pm by Tawakalna

well it certainly isn't from my back garden. my poor misguided daughter spends many a night out the back for several hours looking for the latest celestial event and usually comes in cold and bedraggled having observed nothing but clouds and some drunks on the way home, silly girl. Honestly i think Patrick Moore just taunts us with this stuff.

Thu Feb 05, 2004 10:41 am by Krazy Scout

I will agree with Taw on this matter.......just clouds

Todays "Sad but True" tale: Down here in the bush, where I make my home, upwards of 6000 people turned up to watch some metor thing or such, last min, the clouds roll in and open up, soaking everybody, strangely enough, one guy stayed, till this "space rock" lands not twenty meters from him. After it cooled I took it home and kept it as a handy round...thing. That guy must still be cursing

Thu Feb 05, 2004 11:30 am by gromit

KS you're not "Krazy", you're just plain weird...

...its like this itch....that....I....just....can't....scraaaatch.....

Thu Feb 05, 2004 1:38 pm by Griffon_26

@ Taw....pfft, thats because you live in England....come to Australia.

In any case SHALLOW SKY objects are childs play.....see my thread

Thu Feb 05, 2004 3:08 pm by Esquilax

I don't know what you mean, Griff. I never see anything! Mmm, actually it could be because I live in suburban Melbourne. Oh yeah, I don't have a telescope. I knew I was missing something!

Mon Feb 09, 2004 9:42 am by boomerang one

March 24? Cool, that's my birthday!

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