https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/transit/2019-november-11
Next one won't be until 2032, so if you're into astronomy stuff, have proper sun watching gear (very important, just like watching a partial eclipse!), and location & local weather permitting, you might want to try catching this one.
If you live on this side of the planet, then take a look outside tonight for the lunar eclipse.
Seriously?
Millions of words of horse puns and no-one has talked about the astronomares yet?
I am disappoint getting right on that, then.
...well this isn't unnerving at all.
Fun fact: these aren't actually audible sounds. They're radio waves coming from auroras in the planet's atmosphere that were picked up by the Cassini probe and translated into audible sound.
Happy Hearth’s Warming everyone. I hope you are all in good health and enjoying the holidays wherever you are. Do you need something to do after eating the good food, playing with your new toys, and catching up on all the new films, books, fanfics and anything else? Here are some ideas:
This morning’s eclipse was great fun. I wasn’t expecting to see much as it had been overcast for most of this week. But amazingly, just as the time of first contact approached, the sun broke through the clouds and we could see the moon move across the sun, covering 85% at the maximum point. The cloud actually acted as quite a good solar filter making it easier to take photos.
I have, at last, uploaded the first three chapters of my new story Time on Their Hooves, now awaiting approval by moderators. This is the big one (by my standards). The final version will probably be around 30,000 words.
Do you get the pun? Stellar? Because... stars and space?
Sorry.
Anyway, just thought I'd try a bloggy thing for once. Trying to get over how shy I am on this site.
At this time of year, there is a tradition of planetarium shows about possible astronomical explanations for the story of the Star of Bethlehem, which guided the Magi to the baby Jesus. Scholars have been pondering this for centuries. It’s a fun question to ponder as it mixes biblical scripture, history, astrophysics, and lets us talk about comets, novae, supernovae, planetary conjunctions, along with ancient astronomy from many cultures. See for example
I've just published Chapter 4 of Time on Their Hooves. I would like to apologise that it has taken me so long to do this. I really thought I would have finished this by now, but unfortunately I've had to deal with all sorts of complicated problems at work over the last six months, and it seemed whenever I found the
In this post Twilight will show you how to build your own spectrometer, to split light into all its constituent colours. Like those used by professional astronomers to study distant stars and galaxies.
Checklist! You will need:
One breakfast cereal box
One old CD
Aluminium foil
Sticky Tape
Pair of scissors and a sharp knife (take care not to cut yourself)
A triangle to measure a 60° angle
Some friends to help
Here’s a game for physics and G5 pony nerds: look at the shadows in the film and identify evidence to support one of two theories:
New story out today—yes I can still write stories! Please take a look at Once in a Rainbow Moon, written following last week’s lunar eclipse. Here are the notes on the science in this one.
Ever wondered how to explain primordial and stellar nucleosynthesis to six year olds?
No?
Well on the off chance that you are ever called upon to perform such a duty, let me tell you the best way.
Twilight builds a model of an argon nucleus.
So, for those of you who haven't read the July 8th chapter of Message in a Bottle (G5.05: Satelite), probably go and read that before going on. Either these things aren't going to make sense to you, or they're going to be a major spoiler for that story. So seriously, go read that, then come back here. We good? Good.
It was great to see that Twilight’s Sputnik remained orbiting around the Popular Stories box for some five days—far longer than I expected for such a short story. And it has been an exciting week for space science, with the amazing photos from the Rosetta mission. Let’s hear about comets from Twilight and Luna…
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