Look Out Of Your Window Now! Astronomical events.

[littleme]

And a bigger one on Monday (5.8, last night's was a 4), caused by today's solar flare.

 

[Cue]

Was quite a spectacle, it wasn’t massively visible to the naked eye except a couple of spots but my phone’s night mode does a long exposure and picked it up nicely

 

[Gramaisc]

The Moon, from where I am.

Conditions may vary in other locations.

 

[The Hawk]

'Twas the night before Christmas in 1968, when astronaut Bill Anders looked out of his window and saw this beautiful sight.

 

[Gramaisc]

If you lot have it as cloudless as where I am, then there will be an almost perfect ISS pass just after 10pm.

 

[YorkshirePud]

We've had solid cloud in Stafford.

 

[Glam]

We've had solid cloud in Stafford.

Tiddling it down!

 

[The Hawk]

If you lot have it as cloudless as where I am, then there will be an almost perfect ISS pass just after 10pm.

We've had solid cloud in Stafford.

Better chance tonight between 10.50pm and 10.54pm.
Even better chance on Monday evening between 10.01pm and 10.07pm, for what will be the last very high pass of this series.

 

[Gramaisc]

Better chance tonight between 10.50pm and 10.54pm.
Even better chance on Monday evening between 10.01pm and 10.07pm, for what will be the last very high pass of this series.

Last night's was a textbook pass where I am. 75% of the path from horizon to horizon was clearly visible. There was distant cloud off to the far west and then some haze off to the east, otherwise it was totally a clear view.

There was nobody else in the sky at the time, but there was the faint, distant drone of some late-night farm activity, which might have made sound it plausible to be a plane, if you didn't know...

 

[Gramaisc]

From around midnight tonight.

Spacecraft to pass over Earth in 'world first' fly-by

The European Space Agency's Juice craft will return to Earth tomorrow night, taking part in a "world first" fly-by.

www.rte.ie

 

[Gramaisc]

For those with a particular interest in the seventh planet.

 

[Gramaisc]

If it stays clear, there should be a decent view of the partial eclipse tonight, for about an hour from around 3:15am.

 

[The Hawk]

Aurora Red Alert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[The Hawk]

 

[Lucy]

 

[The Hawk]

 

[Lucy]

The OH went out again at 11.30 and got me out of bed at midnight, they were really visible by eye then, this is from the bedroom window.

 

[staffordjas]

I must live on the dark side

All my mates on the villages could see them with the naked eye and sending fantastic photos. Glad my zumba instructor, who lives around the corner from me, couldn't see them either to prove that me & hubby aren't blind. I even walked around the streets in my flip flops and pj's under my coat when they insisted the houses and trees around must be blocking them....but no , just saw pitch black skies, even taking photos to prove it.

Hubby most disappointed as he's really into sky stuff .

My mate even saw a shooting star. All I saw was a plane lights , (which is a rare sight here as not under flight path as we were in Stafford) .

One of my mates photos..........