In this month's edition:
- Planetary Skylights: Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
- Meteor Showers: Aurigids
- Comet 45P and 2P Encke
- February 2017 Sky Charts
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In this month's edition:
- Planetary Skylights: Venus, Mars, Neptune, Mercury, Saturn
- Meteor Showers: Quadrantids
- Comet 45P
- January 2017 Sky Charts
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In this month's edition:
- Planetary Skylights: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Juipter & Neptune
- Meteor Showers: Geminids, Usrids
- Winter Solstice
- December 2016 Sky Charts
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In this month's edition:
- Planetary Skylights: Saturn, Venus, Mars & Juipter
- Meteor Showers: Leonids, South & North Taurids
- November 2016 Sky Charts
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In this month's edition:
- Planetary Skylights: Venus, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter and Mercury
- Meteor Showers: Piscids, Giacobinids/Draconids and Orionids
- October 2016 Sky Charts
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In this month's edition:
- Planetary Skylights: Venus, Saturn, Mars, and Mercury
- Meteor Showers: sparse Piscids
- September 2016 Sky Charts
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In this month's edition:
- Planetary Skylights: Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Saturn
- Meteor Showers: Perseids
- August 2016 Sky Charts
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In this month's edition:
- Planetary Skylights: Jupiter, Mars, Saturn and Pluto
- Meteor Showers: Capri-Cornids, Alpha-Cygnids and Delta-Aquarids
- July 2016 Sky Charts
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As we head toward summer, nights grow ever lighter with the deepest level of darkness; known as astronomical twilight, absent until early August. The duration of the three ’twilight zones’ continually change from mid northern latitudes, but is perhaps most noticeable around the solstices - particularly the summer solstice.
Using the evening as an example, following sunset civil twilight exists until the Sun drops six degrees below the horizon... [Read more about The Twilight Zones]
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If you have not already done so, would members please find time to sign the online petition – re light pollution, set up by Wakefield Astronomical Society. This should have been sent via email to you already. Here's a link.
Ten thousand signatures are required for the Government to take note, and 100,000 for them to ‘really take note’. The closing deadline is July 22nd. If you know anyone else who would be inclined to sympathise with the cause, get them to sign it too. [Read more about Light Pollution Petition]
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Today's Astronomy Times
Whitby, 4 Dec 2024 - 18:08
| Sun | Rise | Set |
|---|---|---|
| Actual | 08:06 | 15:39 |
| Civil Twilight | 07:23 | 16:23 |
| Nautical Twilight | 06:36 | 17:09 |
| Astronomical Twilight | 05:53 | 17:52 |
| Moon | Rise | Set |
|---|---|---|
| 11:41 | 18:02 |