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orin stepanek
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by orin stepanek » Sun Dec 13, 2020 1:21 pm
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New moon; like no moon, well almost! Should be a good night to
watch; 'cept it's so cold!

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by Ann » Sun Dec 13, 2020 4:05 pm
Lovely APOD! Unfortunately, the night skies over Sweden look like this 🢂
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by Chris Peterson » Sun Dec 13, 2020 4:13 pm
Ann wrote: ↑Sun Dec 13, 2020 4:05 pm
Lovely APOD! Unfortunately, the night skies over Sweden look like this 🢂
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Ann
Geminids can produce very bright fireballs. Bright enough to light up clouds through their thickness. You could always sit on your terrace and stare at the sky, hoping for an occasional flash. Doesn't that sound like a fun way to spend a December evening?
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by johnnydeep » Sun Dec 13, 2020 4:53 pm
I note with some sadness that the Wikipedia link to 3200 Phaethon shows an animated gif of the object with the caption "Radar image of 3200 Phaethon taken by
Arecibo, December 17, 2017". RIP, Arecibo

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by neufer » Sun Dec 13, 2020 5:05 pm
johnnydeep wrote: ↑Sun Dec 13, 2020 4:53 pm
I note with some sadness that the Wikipedia link to 3200 Phaethon shows an animated gif of the object with the caption "Radar image of 3200 Phaethon taken by
Arecibo, December 17, 2017". RIP, Arecibo
Plato wrote:
"There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes. There is a story that even you [Greeks] have preserved, that once upon a time, Phaethon, the son of Helios, having yoked the steeds in his father's chariot, because he was not able to drive them in the path of his father, burnt up all that was upon the earth, and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt. Now, this has the form of a myth, but really signifies a declination of the bodies moving in the heavens around the earth, and a great conflagration of things upon the earth, which recurs after long intervals."
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orin stepanek
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by orin stepanek » Sun Dec 13, 2020 8:31 pm
Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Sun Dec 13, 2020 4:13 pm
Ann wrote: ↑Sun Dec 13, 2020 4:05 pm
Lovely APOD! Unfortunately, the night skies over Sweden look like this 🢂
Ann
Geminids can produce very bright fireballs. Bright enough to light up clouds through their thickness. You could always sit on your terrace and stare at the sky, hoping for an occasional flash. Doesn't that sound like a fun way to spend a December evening?

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by WWW » Mon Dec 14, 2020 2:31 am
Just caught a few streaks early tonight. Radient point seemed to be a bit higher then as shown in the 2015 picture. One streak went right through middle of Orion from head to toe, (between Betelguese and Bellatrix). Plan on taking another look just after local midnight.
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by neufer » Mon Dec 14, 2020 9:47 pm
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Excellent SN cover article

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by Chris Peterson » Mon Dec 14, 2020 10:08 pm
244 meteors on my allsky camera last night. Most are Geminids, but I haven't filtered out those belonging to other active showers yet.
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