As many as 150 multicolored “shooting stars” per hour are expected from a dark sky site. Locals will love it while international eclipse-chasers will mostly miss it and have to make do with the other major sky event that day or, rather the night before as the annual Geminid meteor shower strikes. As their luck would have it those two countries again share the spoils on Decemwhen a precious totality strikes for 2 minutes 9 seconds as the Moon covers the Sun. That happened in Chile and Argentina on July 2, 2019. Since that “Great American Eclipse” (which, technically, the President didn’t see-all he saw was a dangerously 81% eclipsed Sun from Washington) there’s been only one other total solar eclipse. Always use solar eclipse glasses (luckily, he did then put some on). What’s the significance of a solar eclipse? Well … remember back on Augwhen, barely seven months into his presidency, Donald Trump did this (see above)? You should never look at the Sun with the naked eye. A total solar eclipse and a meteor shower combine President Donald Trump looks up toward the Solar Eclipse on the Truman Balcony at the White. Sweep a pair of binoculars through this area and look for a fuzzy “star.”Ĭomet P1 NEOWISE’s similar name to summer 2020’s “comet of the century”comes from the fact that it was found by the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE). According to Universe Today you need to look low to the east at dawn during late October into November. It will be in the constellation of Boötes, making the bottom object in a triangle of Venus and bright star Arcturus. It’s not going to be a naked-eye object, but if you have a pair of binoculars then you’ll be able to see Comet P1 NEOWISE-also known as Comet C/2020 P1 NEOWISE-during late October and early November. Remember Comet F3 NEOWISE, the 21st century’s first bright comet that lit-up the summer skies in the northern hemisphere? Well, now there’s another one. When: late October and early November, 2020 The higher you can get, the better chance you’ll have of watching it materialize on the horizon.Ĭomet NEOWISE, also known as 'C/2020 F3', is seen on Jin Joshua Tree, California. Since you can’t go trick or treating, or make use of your Halloween costume, why not get outside at the time of moonrise where you are-which is always due east (or thereabouts)-to watch a pale orange (no, not blue!) orb appear out of nowhere. That doesn’t make the sight of a rising Full Moon any less impressive. The maths works out that if a Full Moon occurs on October 31 then, of course, there must have been one on October 1 or 2. Since our satellite takes 29.5 days to orbit Earth, it’s bound to happen. In fact, any Full Moon on Halloween is bound to be a “Blue Moon.” That’s because the definition (or, at least, one definition) of a “Blue Moon” is the second Full Moon in the same calendar month. Visually, it will be like any other, but that’s not to play it down. Presidential Election will see a Full Moon. Presidential Election is a Friday 13th … MORE FROM FORBES Your Stargazing Guide To Fall: One 'Halloween Blue Moon,' Two Eclipses And A Once-In-397 Years Sight By Jamie Carter 1. Besides, the more superstitious might like to know that 10 days after the U.S.
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