| Observing Location | VP |
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| Observational Period | 0945-1000 EDT |
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| Atmospheric Conditions |
| Cloud Cover | Scattered Clouds |
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| Temperature | 57° F |
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| Wind | Gentle Breeze
gusting to
Moderate Breeze |
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| Humidity | High |
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| Barometric Pressure | 30.48" Hg
Steady |
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| Feels Like | Cool |
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Fair weather cumulus are around
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| Instruments | Brunton 8x21 compact binocular w/Welco gold shade 14 welder's filter - Charlie |
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| Observing Party | Charlie Ridgway
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| Target | Sunspots |
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| Constellation | Vir |
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| Category | Solar |
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Time
yyyymmdd.hhmm | 20080919.0945 EDT |
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| Comments |
Distance
Light Time | 1.00 AU
8m 21s |
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| Angular Size | 31' 54.0" |
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| Altitude | 33.0° |
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Heliographic Latitude
(B0) | 7.11° |
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Heliographic Longitude
(L0) | 94.02° |
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Parallactic Angle
(P) | 24.81° |
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Carrington rotation number
(CR) | 2074 |
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Nothing Seen
| | Groups | Spots | R |
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| North | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| South | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| R = (Groups * 10) + Spots) |
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| Target | Moon |
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| Constellation | Ari |
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| Category | Lunar |
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Time
yyyymmdd.hhmm | 20080919.0945 EDT |
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| Comments |
| Lunation | 1060 |
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| Phase | Waning Gibbous |
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| Age | 19d 17m 46s |
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Distance
Light Time
(from earth) | 366,883 km
1.22s |
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| Elongation | 124.9° |
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| % Illuminated | 78.9% |
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| Morning Terminator Colongitude (λ E) | 145.8° |
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| Evening Terminator Colongitude (λ W) | 325.8° |
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| Libration in Latitude | -6° 22' |
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| Libration in Longitude | -1° 53' |
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| Magnitude | -11.4 |
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| Angular Size | 32.56' |
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| Altitude | 18° 55' |
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Virtual Moon Atlas graphic |
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The contrast is very low this late in the day and it is hard to make out details. I did identify Mare Imbrium and Oceanus Procelarum
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The launch of STS-125 is listed in press releases as still bing on for 10Oct08, but it has been removed from the Mission Calendar. I suspect that that is an indication of an upcoming launch delay.
[20Sep08: A Universe Today article posted yesterday says that the shuttle launch will be delayed by at least a day due to a problem with the HST payload but that NASA isn't going to change the launch date until it has determined how long it will take to make the repair.]
Endeavour rolled out to Pat 39B early this morning.
Universe Today grapbic
| Observing Location | Parkchester, Bronx, NY I moved around A LOT trying to find the Moon but it was too low for a good observation |
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| Observational Period | 2110-2150 EDT |
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| Atmospheric Conditions |
| Cloud Cover | Scattered Clouds |
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| Temperature | 58° F |
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| Wind | Calm |
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| Humidity | Moderate |
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| Barometric Pressure | 30.41" Hg
Steady |
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| Feels Like | Mild |
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There ae low fair weather cumulus clouds to the N and E.
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| Instruments | Golden Gate 7x35 binocular - Charlie |
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| Observing Party | Charlie Ridgway
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| Target | Pleiades Occultation |
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| Constellation | Tau |
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| Category | Lunar |
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Time
yyyymmdd.hhmm | 20080919.2110 EDT |
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| Comments |
| Moon Data |
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| Lunation | 1060 |
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| Phase | Waning Gibbous |
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| Age | 20d 5h 11m |
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Distance
Light Time
(from earth) | 365,849 km
1.23s |
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| Elongation | 118.6° |
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| % Illuminated | 73.9% |
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| Morning Terminator Colongitude (λ E) | 151.6° |
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| Evening Terminator Colongitude (λ W) | 321.6° |
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| Libration in Latitude | -5° 12' |
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| Libration in Longitude | 1° 13' |
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| Magnitude | -11.2 |
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| Angular Size | 32' 27" |
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| Altitude | -0.8° |
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Virtual Moon Atlas graphic |
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Peter alerted me to the fact that the Moon would be occulting part of The Pleiades when it rose tonight. I don’t know why this wasn’t on my targets list unless I had looked at it and left it off because the Moon woule only be 20° above the horizon when the last of the occultations ends.
I fell asleep while reading after dinner and woke up just as the Moon was scheduled to break the horizon so put some shoes on, brabbed my binocular and headed down toMcDonalds where I expected to see the Moon rise over the Cross Bronx Expressway. After standing there for a time there was still no moon. I did see Jupiter and the tail of Aql out to the S. I moved up to the pedestrian overpass over the Cross Bronx Expressway at Olmstead Ave where I could see lower on the horizon and farther to the N but still no Moon. I pretty much gave up on the event and started walking up Olmstead and finally spotted the Moon from in front of the oriental grocery at Olmstead Ave and Benedict Ave. It was just rising over the roof or the funeral home across Unionport Road and into a parch of clouds. It was strongly salmon colored from the atmosphere. I could not see any stars on the dark limb and there wasn’t enough sky between the bright limb and the roof to see stars there.
This wasn’t a good enough apparition to invest any more time in it so I headed north on Unionport Rd into Parkchester still looking for the Moon but never seeing it again.
The Moon rose much farther to the North of East than I had anticipated.
Cas was standing out that way high above looking like a big P.
Look at how much the point of maximum libration has moved in the past 12 hours.
Virtual Moon Atlas graphic |
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