iceman
12-08-2014, 04:19 PM
Updates in this Newsletter
IceInSpace Astronomy Calendar - Now Available For Sale!
Micro Moon vs Super Moon
Rosetta Visits a Comet
* IceInSpace Astronomy Calendar - Now Available For Sale!
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The IceInSpace Astronomy Calendar 2015 is now available for sale (http://bit.ly/1nJoAh7) via the IceInSpace Shop!
This is your calendar! With images submitted by IceInSpace members, and winning images chosen by the IceInSpace Community, the calendar showcases the brilliant talent we have on offer.
The calendar features 12 great images of our night sky, and provides a nightly guide to what’s visible in the sky. The calendar also includes a summary of the year indicating best time to view the planets, as well as maps showing planetary alignments in the pre-dawn and post-sunset sky. It also includes monthly star charts, moon phases, conjunctions, eclipses and other major events as well as school holidays for all Australian states.
SAVE: Order 2 or more calendars and receive 20% off!
The calendars make a fantastic gift – for yourself, your friends and family. Whether they’re hardcore amateur astronomers, have a casual interest in the night sky, or just like looking at pretty pictures, this calendar will be a great addition to any wall, kitchen cupboard or workplace cubicle.
Order online here: IceInSpace Astronomy Calendar 2015 (http://bit.ly/1nJoAh7).
* Micro Moon vs Super Moon
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/newsletter/images/20140812-moon.jpg
Ian Musgrave has done a wonderful size comparison here with pictures he took of January 16th's Micro Moon compared with August 10th's Super Moon.
The pic shown here was taken when the full Moon was furthest to Earth for this year at apogee (aka Micro or Mini Moon) and closest to Earth for this year at perigee (aka Super Moon or Super Super Moon).
Read more in Ian's Astroblog (http://bit.ly/1oBUAc5).
Everything You Need To Know About A Super Moon (http://earthsky.org/space/what-is-a-supermoon).
A Super Moon looks approximately 14 percent bigger, and around 30 percent brighter than a Micro Moon.
The next Micro Moon will occur on March 5th, 2015, and the next Super Moon closest to Earth for 2015 will occur on September 28th.
-Suzy.
* Rosetta Visits a Comet
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/newsletter/images/20140812-comet.jpg
See the very cool animation (http://bit.ly/1pd0YGz) of a tumbling comet!
This image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was captured by Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 3 August from a distance of 285 km. The image resolution is 5.3 metres/pixel.
Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and Rosetta now lie 405 million kilometres from Earth, about half way between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars, rushing towards the inner Solar System at nearly 55 000 kilometres per hour.
Over the next weeks and months, Rosetta will attempt to orbit the comet as close as 30km.
“Arriving at the comet is really only just the beginning of an even bigger adventure, with greater challenges still to come as we learn how to operate in this unchartered environment, start to orbit and, eventually, land,” says Sylvain Lodiot, ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft operations manager.
As many as five possible landing sites will be identified by late August, before the primary site is identified in mid-September. The final timeline for the sequence of events for deploying Philae – currently expected for 11 November – will be confirmed by the middle of October.
Read More (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Rosetta_arrives_at_comet_destinatio n) at ESA.
Credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
-Suzy.
Thanks for reading! Keep looking up!
IceInSpace Astronomy Calendar - Now Available For Sale!
Micro Moon vs Super Moon
Rosetta Visits a Comet
* IceInSpace Astronomy Calendar - Now Available For Sale!
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/newsletter/images/2015-astronomy-front-300px.jpg
The IceInSpace Astronomy Calendar 2015 is now available for sale (http://bit.ly/1nJoAh7) via the IceInSpace Shop!
This is your calendar! With images submitted by IceInSpace members, and winning images chosen by the IceInSpace Community, the calendar showcases the brilliant talent we have on offer.
The calendar features 12 great images of our night sky, and provides a nightly guide to what’s visible in the sky. The calendar also includes a summary of the year indicating best time to view the planets, as well as maps showing planetary alignments in the pre-dawn and post-sunset sky. It also includes monthly star charts, moon phases, conjunctions, eclipses and other major events as well as school holidays for all Australian states.
SAVE: Order 2 or more calendars and receive 20% off!
The calendars make a fantastic gift – for yourself, your friends and family. Whether they’re hardcore amateur astronomers, have a casual interest in the night sky, or just like looking at pretty pictures, this calendar will be a great addition to any wall, kitchen cupboard or workplace cubicle.
Order online here: IceInSpace Astronomy Calendar 2015 (http://bit.ly/1nJoAh7).
* Micro Moon vs Super Moon
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/newsletter/images/20140812-moon.jpg
Ian Musgrave has done a wonderful size comparison here with pictures he took of January 16th's Micro Moon compared with August 10th's Super Moon.
The pic shown here was taken when the full Moon was furthest to Earth for this year at apogee (aka Micro or Mini Moon) and closest to Earth for this year at perigee (aka Super Moon or Super Super Moon).
Read more in Ian's Astroblog (http://bit.ly/1oBUAc5).
Everything You Need To Know About A Super Moon (http://earthsky.org/space/what-is-a-supermoon).
A Super Moon looks approximately 14 percent bigger, and around 30 percent brighter than a Micro Moon.
The next Micro Moon will occur on March 5th, 2015, and the next Super Moon closest to Earth for 2015 will occur on September 28th.
-Suzy.
* Rosetta Visits a Comet
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/newsletter/images/20140812-comet.jpg
See the very cool animation (http://bit.ly/1pd0YGz) of a tumbling comet!
This image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was captured by Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 3 August from a distance of 285 km. The image resolution is 5.3 metres/pixel.
Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and Rosetta now lie 405 million kilometres from Earth, about half way between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars, rushing towards the inner Solar System at nearly 55 000 kilometres per hour.
Over the next weeks and months, Rosetta will attempt to orbit the comet as close as 30km.
“Arriving at the comet is really only just the beginning of an even bigger adventure, with greater challenges still to come as we learn how to operate in this unchartered environment, start to orbit and, eventually, land,” says Sylvain Lodiot, ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft operations manager.
As many as five possible landing sites will be identified by late August, before the primary site is identified in mid-September. The final timeline for the sequence of events for deploying Philae – currently expected for 11 November – will be confirmed by the middle of October.
Read More (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Rosetta_arrives_at_comet_destinatio n) at ESA.
Credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
-Suzy.
Thanks for reading! Keep looking up!