ISS and Jupiter and Venus together last night.

 

They were saying Sydney was in the box seat to see this event but in fact I think that Deepwater NSW was also heavily in the box seat to also see this event.  It came over cloudy and we missed the entire thing.

I had set the alarm on my phone so the time didn't slip by because it was around dinner time which is a busy time of evening for us with animals and dinner.

Excitedly all day long we hoped for no clouds as we were eager to witness ISS passing by.  We obviously didn't wish hard enough.

The International Space Station passed so close to Venus and Jupiter in the north-western sky, as it is viewed from down here on planet Earth but no matter how much I willed to see it, those clouds kept coming.

At 5:31pm AEST, the International Space Station, which resembles a bright, moving star, would have appeared low in the north-western horizon. It would have passed by Jupiter first and then journeyed past Venus at 5:34pm.

I have learned that the space station takes just seven minutes to cross from one horizon to the other.

I still got to stand and watch a terrific sunset like you would not believe. It was cold but it was more than beautiful even with those clouds moving in.  They are what made it pretty.

Do you tell your eyes to blink?

Another Blood (Full) Moon

Image Source Flickr: John Quong

When one has a realization that you don't tell your eyes to blink, then you begin to understand that this almighty infinite consciousness of the universe needs no boss either (like us) to make it do what it has to do. This is self generating with the principals of gender infusing all things to the left and right of us.

Today the Earth got in between the Moon and the Sun. Seems its Earths turn at this again.  The Earth's shadow consists of two parts:

• a dark inner core called the "umbra,"

• a lighter outer part called the "penumbra."

Rather than being really dark, this inner shadow is tinted an orange or red colour by light passing through the ring of atmosphere surrounding the Earth.  This is why they name these special moons "Blood Moons".

Image Source: Higher Perspective

This total eclipse of the full moon today lasted less than five minutes. This makes it the shortest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century.

Legends told around the subject of blood moons always tell that it is an omen.

The Blood Moon Prophecy is a theory studied and taught by some Christian ministers, such as John Hagee and Mark Biltz, which states that an ongoing tetrad (a series of four consecutive lunar eclipses coinciding on Jewish Holidays with six full moons in between, and no intervening partial lunar eclipses) which began with the April 2014 lunar eclipse is a sign of the end times as described in the Bible in Acts 2:20 and Revelation 6:12.  Wikipedia

Websites to assist in information regarding the planetary movements in the sky and the times for sunrise and sunset across the planet are listed here below for future research.

• Custom Sunrise Sunset Calendar

• Time and date.com sunrise/sunset calculator

• Heavens Above

• Earth Sky  

 

The calendar for sky events this month in April 2015 including the sunrise and sun set times.

Full Moon at Uluru was my big Moon experience.

and last but not least a small video to explain exactly how this happens to cause a Blood Moon in the heavens above us, its short and to the point.

Total Eclipse of the Moon

Images @ Eminpee Fotography- Uluru Moon

The Blood Red Moon - October 2014

 

From Wikipedia

A Lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes directly behind the Earth into its umbra (shadow). This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned (in "syzygy") exactly, or very closely so, with the Earth in the middle. Hence, a lunar eclipse can only occur the night of a full moon. The type and length of an eclipse depend upon the Moon's location relative to its orbital nodes.

Unlike a solar eclipse, which can only be viewed from a certain relatively small area of the world, a lunar eclipse may be viewed from anywhere on the night side of the Earth. A lunar eclipse lasts for a few hours, whereas a total solar eclipse lasts for only a few minutes at any given place, due to the smaller size of the moon's shadow. Also unlike solar eclipses, lunar eclipses are safe to view without any eye protection or special precautions, as they are dimmer than the full moon.

Ancient Aborigines understood eclipses 

Stuart Gary ABC

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The Perseids Meteor Shower in August

Two perseids meteors and their radiant (crossing of dotted line). Two star constellations are indicated. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This week end will be a big one if the sky is clear at night.  If it is it will be wonderful to watch as it always is.  I remember the first time I saw this I was fishing on a river bank looking west and I was just perplexed to why there were just so many falling stars.

The Perseids  are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle. The Perseids are so-called because the point from which they appear to come, called the radiant, lies in the constellation Perseus. The name derives in part from the word Perseides, a term found in Greek mythology referring to the sons of Perseus.

Dawning night sky from my back yard in Urunga.

The stream of debris is called the Perseid cloud and stretches along the orbit of the comet Swift-Tuttle. The cloud consists of particles ejected by the comet as it travels on its 130-year orbit. Most of the dust in the cloud today is around a thousand years old. However, there is also a relatively young filament of dust in the stream that was pulled off the comet in 1865. The rate of meteors originating from this filament is much higher than for the older part of the stream.

The Perseid meteor shower has been observed for about 2000 years, with the earliest information on this meteor shower coming from the Far East. Some Catholics refer to the Perseids as the "tears of St. Lawrence", since 10 August is the date of that saint's martyrdom.

The shower is visible from mid-July each year, with the peak in activity being between August 9 and 14, depending on the particular location of the stream. During the peak, the rate of meteors reaches 60 or more per hour. They can be seen all across the sky, but because of the path of Swift-Tuttle's orbit, Perseids are primarily visible in the northern hemisphere.

As with all meteor showers, the rate is greatest in the pre-dawn hours, since the side of the Earth nearest to turning into the sun scoops up more meteors as the Earth moves through space. Most Perseids disappear while at heights above 80 kilometres (50 mi).

The 2010 Perseids over the VLT (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In 2009, the estimated peak Zenithal Hourly Rate was 173, but fainter meteors were washed out by a waning gibbous moon.  Wiki.

Taking the trusty tripod to the cliff to Photograph the PERSEIDS this evening.

Images @ Eminpee Fotography

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The Super Moon comes to Urunga!

June 2013 presents the moons closest encounter with Earth until August 10, 2014, at which time the moon will be a scant 5 kilometres closer to Earth.

The full moon will come even closer to Earth on September 28, 2015 and closer yet on November 14, 2016.

November 2016 will feature the closest full moon until November 25, 2034.

The closest full moon of the 21st century will fall on December 6, 2052.

For the moon to come closer than 356,400 kilometres (221,457 miles) is quite a feat. In fact, this won’t happen at all in the 21st century or the 22nd century.

The last time the full moon swung this close to Earth was on January 14, 1930 (356,397 km), and the next time won’t be till January 1, 2257 (356,371 km).

All full moons bring higher-than-usual tides, and close full moons bring the highest (and lowest) tides of all. Each month, on the day of the full moon, the moon, Earth and sun are aligned, with Earth in between. This line up creates wide-ranging tides. High tides climb up especially high, and on the same day low tides plunge especially low.

Bottom line: The full moon of June 22-23, 2013 is the closest and largest full moon of this year. There are three full moons in 2013 that meet the definition of a super moon – May, June and July. But this June 22-23 full moon is the most super of the super moons.

Information sourced from:
http://earthsky.org/tonight/is-biggest-and-closest-full-moon-on-june-23-2013-a-supermoon

Viewing times for Brisbane:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/astronomy.html?obj=moon&n=47

Moon Phase Calculator (Find your local viewing time):
http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/aboutmoonphases.html

Images @ Eminpee Fotography

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Fish actually fell from the sky over Lajamanu in the Northern Territory

 

Miles and miles and miles away from a river or the ocean and fish start falling out of the sky on top of you,  that is not an everyday thing.   What is even more amazing is that its happened two other times that has been reported in the news.  This happened not once, but twice, on Thursday and Friday afternoon around 6pm at Lajamanu, about 550km southwest of Katherine.

In 1974  and in 2004 it occurred then and now its all happening again.  There were old reports in the NT News.  This made world news back then. 

Weather experts in Australia  are saying that this happens because the fish were sucked up in a thunderstorm before being dumped over the tiny town of Lajamanu with a population of 669 people.   The fish are believed to be spangled perch. 

When members of the community spoke to friends over on the coast they thought residents were losing the plot.  One lady said she hoped it didn't start raining crocodiles, cause that would be a worry.  All of the fish were alive as they hit the ground.

I wonder if they ate the fish?   I also wonder if they were tested to find out where they came from.  We may hear more about this yet.

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BIG LIGHT Sails over the east coast of Australia heading East!

A very bright and very big light was reported hurtling through the skies of SE Queensland and Northern NSW all the way to the Hunter region.  That light was none other than the decomissionioned Soviet Satellite  Molniya 3-53.

I missed the action.  I  really really missed this!  I eagerly ventured outside last night when I heard there was action up in the sky over SE Queensland around Nanango and Kingaroy area in Queensland.  I went outside up into  the back yard for a look, I didn't stay long enough though it seems.  I should have stayed longer.  I didn't see anything so I abandoned it all and  went to bed almost straight away after coming back inside frozen to the core.   Isn't it always the way, what do you know,  it was all going on and I didn't know a thing.  I was oblivious to what sight everyone was seeing.  So Yes, I am disappointed slightly.

Today was a flurry of reporting.  There were reports from all up and down the eastern seaboard of Australia from North of Brisbane all the way down to Port Macquarie and down as far as the Hunter Valley.  In our area here there were Hundred's of reports from the Coffs Harbour surrounding districts.

I think the funniest report was from my great friend Gail.  Yes Gail saw it!   She witnessed this entire event  while she was having a cigarette on her verandah.  The sky started to go strange and suddenly it was lit up everywhere with a peculiar light and then she saw it sailing in over the top of her from the west. 

She was convinced it was going to hit Fuller's Fruit Barn on Waterfall Way.  She said she was waiting for the siren's but they never happened.  I laughed with her picturing all of this.  I think Gail was very lucky.

Reports today also say it was Space Junk and not an actual meteorite after all.  Either way it gave lots of people a site they will never forget.

 

From this website then we read that it was Space Junk from an old satellite http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=CO-20130614-39605-AUS

Event into space in Australia on Friday, 14 June, 2013 at 04:39 (04:39 AM) UTC.

Description

A former Soviet satellite that burned up in the earth's atmosphere is thought to have been the bright burning light spotted by thousands across the East Coast last night. A US-based observer who spotted the Coff's Coast Advocate's online article shortly after the sighting on Thursday night used social media to quiz witnesses. NASA projections showed the decommissioned satellite Molniya 3-53 had a trajectory right over Australia and was due to crash into the Pacific Ocean off the East Coast. Around 6pm, a large white light with a burning tail was seen to cross the sky. The satellite was reportedly sighted from the Central Coast to the Hunter Valley, Mid North Coast, and throughout South-East Queensland. After the Advocate posted the story online, it went viral on social media with upwards of 100 people confirming they saw the flying object which was initially thought to be a meteorite.

Images @ Eminpee Fotography

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The Planets are dancing in the sky above us at present.

 Image Credit: Nathan August © ; After Sunset via Flickr CC

From May 24 Through May 30

To have a best view of the 2013 Dance of the Planets, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) suggests that viewers must step outside approximately 30 to 60 minutes after the sun goes down. Then, look at the west direction and towards the horizon with Venus acting as the brightest point of reference.

Urunga

The “dance of the planets” is the event where Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury (or other planets), all appear to be very close together in the sky and exchange positions with other over a short period of time.

The sky above us at present is alive with action.  The times we are in at the present is clearly evident by what we are seeing in the night skies and by the actions of our Sun.

The planet is rocking and rolling big time.  We are certainly in for some weird stuff weather wise from here on in.   Until we re gain control from them.  Them being the fools who are at the helm of this ship called OUR LIVES.

I feel so ripped off by what is happening.  I have never seen the Barrier Reef and they are killing it.  What to do?

Images @  Eminpee Fotography

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