The Geminid meteor shower is due to peak on the 14th and 15th of December 2011, and usually gives one of the best displays of meteors of the year. If you wish to see this shower, it is best to go somewhere away from streetlights after about 9 or 10 o'clock in the evening (here in the UK) and look to the east. However your vision of them may be impaired by the waning gibbous moon that will preside over that portion of the sky for the majority of the evening.
In other News, tomorrow Cern are due to make several announcements about the Higgs Boson. Whilst it is extremely unlikely that they will announce its discovery, it is believed that they will reveal the amount of evidence that they currently have in the search for what has been named "the God Particle". I'll post tomorrow with a summary of their announcement.
Happy stargazing (and meteor watching) Folks!!
Tuesday 13 December 2011
Thursday 8 December 2011
StudentAstro on Youtube!!
Yes folks, Ive just started a youtube channel, on which i shall hopefully be making videos full of use tips on stargazing, exam revision for physics and sciences, a bit more of what I do on here and whatever else you kind folks comment and ask for from the StudentAstro Channel!! (StudentAstro1011 is the channel name by the way)
Happy Stargazing everyone
Happy Stargazing everyone
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