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For Bigby!!!
Busy day! First The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey premiere in Wellington is announced, and now... Take a look at the first pic of the Venus Transit from The Hermitage Hotel in Aoraki Mount Cook. In New Zealand? Share your photos with us!
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so, good chance of seeing the ISS tonight if the clouds clear
THE FOLLOWING ISS SIGHTINGS ARE POSSIBLE FROM MON JUN 11 TO TUE JUN 26
SATELLITE LOCAL DURATION MAX ELEV APPROACH DEPARTURE
DATE/TIME (MIN) (DEG) (DEG-DIR) (DEG-DIR)
ISS Tue Jun 12/10:36 PM 6 54 10 above WSW 11 above E
ISS Wed Jun 13/00:12 AM 6 57 10 above W 11 above ESE
ISS Wed Jun 13/01:49 AM 3 24 11 above W 24 above SSW
ISS Wed Jun 13/11:18 PM 6 63 10 above W 12 above ESE
ISS Thu Jun 14/00:54 AM 4 34 10 above W 26 above SSE
ISS Fri Jun 15/00:00 AM 6 45 10 above W 13 above SE
ISS Fri Jun 15/01:37 AM 1 15 11 above WSW 15 above SW
ISS Fri Jun 15/11:06 PM 6 56 10 above W 11 above ESE
ISS Sat Jun 16/00:42 AM 3 23 11 above W 22 above S
ISS Sat Jun 16/11:48 PM 5 32 12 above W 16 above SE
ISS Sun Jun 17/10:53 PM 6 44 10 above W 10 above SE
ISS Mon Jun 18/00:31 AM 2 15 11 above WSW 14 above SSW
ISS Mon Jun 18/11:36 PM 4 22 11 above W 15 above S
ISS Tue Jun 19/10:41 PM 5 31 12 above W 10 above SE
ISS Wed Jun 20/11:24 PM 3 14 10 above WSW 10 above S
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strange weather patterns, a tornado in Donegal yesterday a hail shower that looked like snow last week, and was talking to someone who was in Donegal while there was flooding around the country and they were sitting out in sunshine
hope boxman is ok and all that were in the path of the tornado in Perth
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Live video from the International Space Station includes internal views when the crew is on-duty and Earth views at other times. The video is accompanied by audio of conversations between the crew and Mission Control. This video is only available when the space station is in contact with the ground. During "loss of signal" periods, viewers will see a blue screen. Since the station orbits the Earth once every 90 minutes, it experiences a sunrise or a sunset about every 45 minutes. When the station is in darkness, external camera video may appear black, but can sometimes provide spectacular views of lightning or city lights below.
cool
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Friday, August 3, 2012Perseids Meteor Shower Peaks August 11, 2012
The summer's best meteor shower will peak next weekend on August 11 and 12, 2012. Even though the nights leading up to the Perseids meteor shower peak will be hampered by a waning full moon, they will still be easily seen by people on Earth.
For the 2012 Perseids meteor shower, a waning half moon will set darker skies each night following the peak of the shower. The Perseids meteor shower will be viewable all over the world. The major determining factor on where a good place is to watch the Perseids meteor shower will be determined by the viewer's local cloud cover.
NASA says that the Perseids have been observed for about 2,000 years. The source of the annual meteor shower is the debris trail left behind comet Swift-Tuttle. Each year in August, the Earth passes through a cloud of the comet's debris. These bits of ice and dust burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.
Most of the Perseid meteors that we observe now were ejected from Swift-Tuttle about 1,000 years ago. Marshall’s meteor camera network captured some of the meteors or "shooting stars" during the peak.
You can tell if a meteor belongs to a particular shower by tracing back its path to see if it originates near a specific point in the sky, called the radiant. The constellation in which the radiant is located gives the shower its name, and in this case, Perseids appear to come from a point in the constellation Perseus.
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