#nightsky

....MAY NIGHT SKY 2023.. CIELO NOCTURNO DE MAYO 2023....

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Each day the Sun appears to rise from an easterly direction, traces a clockwise arc across the heavens and then sets towards the west, disappearing for the dark time we call night. By the end of the month the Sun is setting just before 9pm. The beautiful long days of Summer are upon us, but it does mean we have to wait until after 10pm to see the Stars! The dynamic forces between the sun, earth, and moon can be appreciated by simply observing their daily movements. The Full Moon arrives on the 5th day so we start the month with a bright Moon, already dominating the night sky with her brilliance! There is a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse occurring, however it is not visible from Fuerteventura. The Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower is peaking on the 6th/7th but the Moon will be a problem, blocking out all but the brightest meteors. The meteor shower has been running since the end of April and finishes around the 28th May. In the Northern Hemisphere, the rate can reach about 30 meteors per hour and in the Southern Hemisphere around 60, produced by dust particles left behind by comet Halley, which has been observed since ancient times. The night of the 8th and the 9th could be best viewing this Year! Meteors will radiate from the constellation Aquarius, but can appear anywhere in the sky. From the 6th day the Moon is rising later each night and becoming less illuminated as it passes through Waning Gibbous to Waning Crescent Phase and back to the New Moon on the 19th day. This is the darkest night of the month and the best time to photograph a beautiful starry night sky or simply to look up and appreciate even the fainter Stars! Venus is shining bright in the evening sky all month and Mars is still visible, getting lower in the Western Sky. Saturn is rising in the early hours of the morning, along with the beautiful constellation of Scorpio and the core of our Galaxy. Clean skies to everyone and Keep Looking Up!

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Cada día, el Sol parece levantarse desde el Este, y moverse trazando un arco en el sentido de las agujas del reloj cruzando el cielo y al final, ponerse en el Oeste, desapareciendo durante las horas de sombra, que llamamos la noche. Al final del mes, el Sol se pone antes de las 21 horas. Los maravillosos días largos del verano están llegando, pero eso quiere decir que tenemos que esperar hasta después de las 22 horas para ver las Estrellas. Se pueden apreciar las fuerzas dinámicas entre el Sol, la Tierra y la Luna simplemente observando sus movimientos diarios. ¡La Luna Llena llega el día 5, entonces empezamos el mes con una Luna brillante que ya domina el cielo de noche con su luminosidad! Hay un eclipse lunar penumbral, pero no se podrá verlo desde Fuerteventura. La lluvia de meteoros de las Eta Acuáridas llega a su punto máximo los días 6 y 7, pero la Luna será un problema, y su brillo esconderá todos los meteoros, aparte de los más brillantes. La lluvia de meteoros empezó al final de abril y termina alrededor del día 28 de mayo. En el hemisferio Norte, se podrán ver unos 30 meteoros cada hora y en el hemisferio Sur, unos 60. Están producidos por partículas de polvo dejadas por el cometa Halley, que se observa desde los tiempos antiguos. ¡Las noches de los días 8 y 9 podrían ser las mejores del año para las observaciones! Los meteoros irradian de la Constelación de Acuario, pero podrían aparecer en cualquier lugar del cielo. Desde el día 6, la Luna sale más tarde cada noche y con menos luminosidad, cuando pasa de su fase de cuarto menguante a su fase de luna menguante cóncava y de vuelta a la Luna Nueva, el día 19. Será la noche la más oscura del mes y el mejor momento para tomar fotos de los maravillosos cielos estrellados o simplemente mirar hacia arriba y apreciar las estrellas las más distantes. Venus brilla fuertemente en el cielo de noche durante todo el mes y todavía se puede observar Marte, que está cada vez más bajo en el cielo del Oeste. Saturno sale temprano por la mañana, con la preciosa constelación del Escorpio y el centro de nuestra Galaxia. ¡Cielos despejados a todos y seguid mirando hacia el cielo!

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100000 STARS CHROME WORKSHOP EXPERIMENT

http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars/ http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=noobfromua 100,000 Stars is an interactive visualization of the stellar neighborhood created for the Google Chrome web browser. It shows the real location of over 100,000 nearby stars. Zooming in reveals 87 individually identified stars and our solar system. The galaxy view is an artist's rendition. FullHD Video preview.

We love this. Fantastic idea!

Called 100,000 stars  this is a fully-immersive 3D plot of (in fact) 119,617 stars. This is an interactive visualization of the stellar neighborhood created for the Google Chrome web browser/App. It shows the real location of nearby stars. Zooming in reveals 87 individually identified stars and our solar system. The galaxy view is an artist's rendition.

According to Aaron Koblin's blog posting to announce the project, "Visualizing the exact location of every star in the galaxy is a problem of, well, galactic proportions. With over 200 billion stars, capturing every detail of the Milky Way currently defies scientists and laptops alike. However, using imagery and data from a range of sources, including NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), we were recently able to take one small step in that direction by plotting the location of the stars closest to our sun.

"The result is a new Chrome Experiment called 100,000 Stars that visualizes the stellar neighborhood. Using your mouse or trackpad, you can zoom in and out to explore our galaxy. Zooming in reveals the names of the most prominent stars close to our sun - click each name to learn more about it and see a digital rendition."

Koblin concludes, "As you explore this experiment, we hope you share our wonder for how large the galaxy really is. It's incredible to think that this mist of 100,000 measurable stars is a tiny fraction of the sextillions of stars in the broader universe." Author: Google Data Arts Team Sources: Programmed by some space enthusiasts at Google. Galaxy images provided by Wikipedia and ESO/IDA/Danish 1.5m/R.Gendler and A. Hornstrup. Star renderings derived from Wikipedia Sun images courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams. Star data provided by: HYG Database, by Astronomy Nexus Gliese/Jahreiß Catalog, by Dr. Wilhelm Gliese and Dr. Hartmut Jahreiss Bright Star Catalog (5th edition), by Dr. E. Dorrit Hoffleit and Dr. Wayne H. Warren Jr, and the Department of Astronomy at Yale University HIPPARCOS Catalog (3rd Edition) by the European Space Agency.

Click on this link and you can play with the real thing:

https://stars.chromeexperiments.com

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