SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2011
what's up for the year
If you're like me, you need to see "the big picture." Usually over
the winter months, I start sketching out my plans for the whole year. For example,
I try to tie camping trips to good night skies.
I use a combination of technologies. I maintain a set of events in
a Google Calendar layer called "astronomy" (surprise, surprise);
I use a Rainmeter skin to monitor this calendar. For significant events,
I make systems send me e-mail reminders!
Why not regularly view my shared read-only Google Calendar. It supports Week, Month, and Agenda (list) views.
The calendar is shown above in an "iFrame." I hope your
browser supports this style.
The calendar is written primarily for the south-western Ontario locale.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 2014
solar system events
The list below notes the significant solar system events for the
year. There are separate listings for the inner planets, the outer
bodies, and known comets.
inner planets:
| object and event |
date |
| Mercury |
|
| elongation east (evening) |
Jan 30 |
| inferior conjunction |
Feb 15 |
| elongation west (morning) |
Mar 13 |
| superior conjunction |
Apr 25 |
| east |
May 24 |
| inferior |
Jun 19 |
| west |
Jul 12 |
| superior |
Aug 8 |
| east |
Sep 21 |
| inferior |
Oct 16 |
| west |
Oct 31 |
| superior |
Dec 7 |
| Venus |
|
| inferior conjunction |
Jan 11 |
| elongation west (morning) |
Mar 22 |
| superior conjunction |
Oct 24 |
 |
|
outer planets (in relation to the Sun):
| object |
in line |
|
opposite |
| Mars |
- |
|
Apr 8 |
| asteroids |
|
|
|
| (1) Ceres |
Dec 10 |
|
Apr 17 |
| (2) Pallas |
Oct 25 |
|
Feb 15 |
| (3) Juno |
Apr 12 |
|
- |
| (4) Vesta |
- |
|
Apr 15 |
| Jupiter |
Jul 24 |
|
Jan 5 |
| Saturn |
Nov 17 |
|
May 10 |
| Uranus |
Apr 1 |
|
Oct 7 |
| Neptune |
Feb 23 |
|
Aug 28 |
| Pluto |
Jan 1 |
|
Jul 3 |
|
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comets:
| object |
perihelion |
|
notes |
| C/2013 R1 Lovejoy |
- |
|
near alpha Oph Jan 11 |
| C/2012 X1 (LINEAR) |
Feb 21 |
|
in Oph during Jan |
| 17P/Holmes |
Mar 27 |
|
|
| 209P/LINEAR |
May 6 |
|
|
| Faye |
May 29 |
|
|
| C/2012 K1 Pan-STARRS |
Aug 27 |
|
Hercules in Apr |
| C/2013 V5 Oukaimeden |
Aug-late |
|
Monoceros in Aug-early |
| C/2013 A1 Siding Spring |
Oct 25 |
|
very near Mars Oct 19 |
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2011
sources
Information about upcoming astronomical events is gathered from a
variety of sources.
- RASC Observer's Handbook (annual)
- RASC calendar (annual)
- Stan Shadick's Skywatchers calendar (annual)
- The Evening Sky Map from SkyMaps.com (monthly)
- SkyNews magazine (bi-monthly)
- Sky and Telescope magazine web site (weekly)
- Eric Briggs of the RASC Toronto Centre
- Gary Boyle of the RASC
- Dave Mitsky's Celestial Calendar in StarryNights Yahoo!Group (also published on the Delaware Valley Amateur Astronomers site)
- CalSky's custom calendar
- SkyTools 3 planning software
- etc.
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