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   Night Sky Calendar - Southern Hemisphere
July 2008
Celestial Object
 
04 - Earth at aphelion (farthest from Sun) at 8h UT. The Sun - Earth distance
0000is 1.01675 a.u. or about 152.1 million km.
06 - Moon near Mars at 16h UT (evening sky). Mag. +1.7.
16 - Moon near Saturn at 20h UT (evening sky). Mag. +0.8.
19 - Jupiter at opposition at 8h UT (mag. -2.7). Bes time to observe the largest
0000planet in in the solar system.
10 - Mars 0.64 from Saturn at 16h UT (47° from Sun, evening sky) Mag.+1.7 & +0.8.
17 - Moon near Jupiter at 14h UT (midnight sky). Mag. -2.7.
18 - Full Moon at 7:59 UT. The full moon of July is called the "Thunder Moon"
0000or "Hay Moon" .
29 - Mercury at superior conjunction at 20h UT (not visible). Passes into the evening sky.

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The photo was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and shows a detail of the nebula. This close-up shows a dense cloud of dust and gas, a stellar nursery full of embryonic stars. This cloud is about 8 light-years away from the nebula's central star, not shown in this picture. Located in Sagitarius, the nebula's name means "divided into three lobes".
 




 

The man behind the glowing gas and dust...

When I was young, I always have a dream to climb up the sky to go to outer reach of the solar system and beyond, to see how it feel like living in a distant world. Now, I know it's a ridiculous dream. From that point, my interest on the world of astronomy was growing, and now living in the cyber world, where huge resources of scientific knowledge on this subject is widely available, has opened my eye even wider on astronomy. Intricate structure of the universe, myriad of unknown worlds, far-off galaxies, enigmatic dark matter, etc are some of the examples of the beauty of astronomy, a scientific study enveloped by human desire to unveil the secret of universe.

This little blog is published as a part of the realisation of the interest. The blog was born two years ago. At first birth, it contains topics on my surfing habit on the internet with varied subjects to post. But soon after following the latest breakthroughs in the world of astronomy and all tidbids around it, then I decided to transform the blog into a total brand new look and feel, also with the specific subject of interest to post. Since then, news on human achievements in astronomy circulated on the net is the main topic I posted on my blog. Also, when a time comes for me to look at the night sky, I surely post the activity on this blog. Because I dont have a decent telescope with great magnification, I cannot talk about the finding of nebula, far-off galaxies with the telescope for now.

and finally... A clear sky for everyone...!!


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