Saturday 19th of March 2011 | Bob Christmas
Perigee Moon shot over the hustle and bustle of downtown Burlington.
Moon at perigee over Burlington
Perigee Moon shot over the hustle and bustle of downtown Burlington.
A number of people showed up at Lakeland Centre on Van Wagner’s Beach to take photos of tonight’s Super Moon. Here’s a photo of the action.
Hi Everyone!
Be sure to take a peek at the Moon tonight, the largest full moon you will see for 18 years!
It’s because its elliptical orbit around the earth has its closest point in the line with the earth and sun tonight,
and the moon just happens to be there, giving us a full moon.
A fuller moon you won’t be seeing for some time!
To celebrate the event, the HAA will be getting together very soon, for a
moon-rise observation session, at the parking lot on Van Wagners Beach Road,
between the go-carts and the wading pool…
Here’s a map
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=43.262816,-79.769325&spn=0.008344,0.015385&t=h&z=16
The moon rises at about 7:30, so get yourself and your friends down there right away, and we will
be delighted to celebrate the event with you!
Steve Germann
Observing Director,
Hamilton Amateur Astronomers
Saturday’s full Moon is the closest, biggest, and brightest in 19 years.
So let me know with a comment if you see it (through clouds).
Special bonus points if you tell a friend about it and they actually look up at it 🙂
Steve
Saturday Nights’ Full moon will be a “Perigee Moon” the closest full moon since March 1993.
Moon Rise will be at approximately 19:53 EDT. At a distance of 222,375 miles.
In the southern Ontario area the moon will rise at 97.8 degrees (East)
The next “Perigee Moon” will not occur till 2029.
Full moons look different because of the elliptical shape of the moon’s orbit.
When it’s at perigee, the moon is about 31,000 miles (50,000 km) closer to Earth than when it’s at the farthest point of its orbit, also known as apogee.
Definitely worth a look.
The Clear Sky Clock for Hamilton area show the possibility of 20% cloud cover from 18:00 – 21:00
Joseph McArdle
MCSA, MCSE
CompTIA A+, Network+, Server+, Security+
Member of H.A.A. Council
I am putting some links into the ‘comments’ for this post. Putting them there causes the machine to count the number of views, (which i am curious about).
There you will find references to Messier Objects,
and other surprises.
Steve
This is an image of the ISS and Discovery passing over Polaris from Burlington on March 7 at about 6:56 pm. Discovery is at right, leading the way; the ISS is at left. Canon Digital Rebel 300D with 50mm lens set at f/4; ISO 400; 2 second exposure. — Bob Christmas
We watched the space shuttle, Discovery, and the International Space Station pass overhead this evening from our driveway. They were very bright and about 30 seconds apart, moving in tandem across the sky. It was a lovely sight and the best naked eye view of a shuttle we’ve ever had. I took some photos and share one here. Because they followed the same path in the sky, both Discovery and the ISS form a single, thin, white line in the photo. (The circles of light are internal reflections from the camera lens caused by a streetlight just out of the frame.)
Most of Southern Ontario will be witness to a rare Double Flyby tonight.
As of 8:37am EST Shuttle Discovery undocked from the International Space Station, on her final flight and is returning home for the last time.
This evening starting at approx. 6:55 pm EST a rare double Flyby will be visible as the Shuttle and the ISS will seem to be chasing each other across the Northern sky.
The Shuttle will rise above the horizon at 18:56:00 EST (look to the NW).
It will head east across the sky rising to a height of 47 Deg in the NE.
The ISS will rise above the horizon approx. 30 seconds behind the Shuttle and follow an
almost identical track across the sky rising to a height of 48 Deg in the NE.
Below is the link to the NASA satelite sighting page for Canada.
Select your province, then select the closest city to where you live.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/skywatch.cgi?country=Canada
Here is a link to Mario Carr’s latest astronomy column in the local paper. I’m sure you’ll enjoy reading his article as much as I did. Well done, Mario!
http://www.hamiltonmountainnews.com/arts_and_entertainment/article/230670
