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The Geminid meteor shower: Tears of the Sun God

The month of December offers us the most intense meteor shower of the year. These are the Geminids, so-called because they appear to emanate from the constellation of Gemini the Twins. At the peak of the shower, over 120 meteors – two meteors every minute – can be spotted under Read more…

By Apostolos Christou, 1 yearDecember 9, 2021 ago
Moon

Friday 19 November 2021: Catch a lunar eclipse on your way to work

Armagh Observatory and Planetarium reports that, if skies are clear on the morning of 19th November 2021, sky-watchers will witness a partial eclipse of the Moon. The eclipse begins at 0720 am Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) when the Moon is only 5 deg above the NW horizon. At that time Read more…

By Apostolos Christou, 1 yearNovember 16, 2021 ago
Comets and Asteroids

Halley meteor shower due to peak this week

Orionids are debris from comet Halley that graced Earth’s skies in 1986 and is expected to return to the vicinity of the Sun in 2061. Orionids tend to be quite fast, hitting the Earth’s atmosphere at 66 km /sec. This is fast enough to cross the Atlantic Ocean in about Read more…

By Apostolos Christou, 1 yearOctober 19, 2021 ago
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All-sky camera at AOP captures the 2021 Perseids

by Apostolos Christou During the past week, Earth passed through the core of the Perseid meteor shower. The peak of the shower – when up to 100 Perseids could be observed under clear conditions away from light pollution – occurred between the 11th and 13th of August. Three bright Perseids Read more…

By Apostolos Christou, 1 yearAugust 16, 2021 ago
Solar System

Lunokhod: The first Moon car

When Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and Jim Irwin touched down near the lunar Appenine mountains in the summer of 1971, they brought along a rover to aid them in their exploits. The use of this Lunar Roving Vehicle – or LRV as it was called – was the first Read more…

By Apostolos Christou, 2 yearsAugust 2, 2021 ago
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Armagh astronomers make the first observation of comet 67P since the end of the ROSETTA mission!

Do you remember comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko? It was the target of the ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft, which visited and ultimately crash landed into the comet in its previous passage close to the Sun in 2014-2016. Rosetta made history as being the first spacecraft to ever orbit and land (with Philae) on a Read more…

By Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, 2 yearsJune 25, 2021 ago
Solar System

MULTI-MOON SUMMER MADNESS

How many moons can you see with the naked eye? The answer may surprise you.. Of the hundreds of moons orbiting the planets of our solar system, all but four are too faint to see with the naked eye. One of the four is, of course, Earth’s own Moon. The Read more…

By Apostolos Christou, 2 yearsJune 11, 2021 ago
Science Fiction

PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE 2021 JUNE 10

Armagh Observatory and Planetarium reports that, if skies are clear on the morning of 10th June 2021, sky-watchers will witness a partial eclipse of the Sun. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, in effect casting a shadow on our planet. When the Read more…

By Apostolos Christou, 2 yearsJune 4, 2021 ago
Solar System

Of trees, colanders and solar eclipses

What do a tree, a colander and a piece of cardboard have in common? The answer: they can all be used to observe a solar eclipse! Our Sun – the brightest star in the sky – has been the subject of intense scrutiny ever since human beings began to interrogate Read more…

By Apostolos Christou, 2 yearsJune 1, 2021 ago
Comets and Asteroids

A Deep Dive on 2I/Borisov

This week, AOP PhD Student Zuri Grey tells us all about Comet 2I/Borisov! 1) What is the difference between an interstellar comet and a regular comet? Solar System comets are believed to have come from two sources. Short period comets, which take less than 200 years to complete an orbit Read more…

By Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, 2 yearsApril 23, 2021 ago

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Hello and welcome to Astronotes, the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium’s official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from all those who work in our organisation, from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. We hope you will come here to learn what is hot and exciting, profound or even weird from worlds beyond ours . So that's the introduction out of the way, now on with the Universe!

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