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July caught and spotted in wintery Auckland….

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JULY-2013 Night sky
graphics used is stellarium | time stamp is 2000 hours New Zealand time with out daylight savings.

This month of July is spotted, in wintery Auckland, New Zealand, she is caught up in a weathered crowd of misty clouds as she entered into a rave of ravers of stars in the night sky. As the weathering favours the rain rather than the glittery clear night sky.

Among the ravers, Saturn arriving earlier, still hanging in between his entourage the constellation Virgo and Libra rises at 1300 hours but best to catch up with him during the 1800 into the evening has he says farewell to Venus as she settles down to catch up with her other friends at 1930 hours following with Sol, the sun.

Among the regular’s raver’s goers of the wintery night sky, are the constellation Scorpio, Sagittarius, and accompany by Ophiuchus below following Saturn’s entourage following in the direction of east to west. Among that nearby group is the Dj’s of Auckland’s night sky, is the Crux the southern cross, pointed out by the Pointers alpha centauri aka Rigel Kent and , and the right of the southern cross is the support crew the Diamond Cross, and the False Cross.

During last of later months is the observation of the Chinese space station orbiting overhead, in that was rare to see, it’s reflective brightness is very much less but could make out the long cylinder structure, instead of the 108 meters width of the international space stations H’ reflective structure, which glows reflectively bright by its dual four solar panels power source.

As to Matariki, Pleiades, Subaru, or known as the seven sisters, the sisters are celebrated by the dawn of the Maori New Year last month of 22th of June in which you could see the sisters at very early morning of 0500 hours looking out into the nearby east in the protection of  the constellation Taurus.

June spotted in Auckland’s night life……

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night sky-13-06-2013
graphics using stellarium, the night sky over Auckland new Zealand-13 June 2013 about 2000 hours

At the moment over here, its winter, it’s getting colder than the month before. Temperature wise it’s barely making least than fifteen degrees C, over here in Auckland.   Beanies are a fashionably a must to keep you head warm plus to keep your head avoid from getting head chills.

At the moment spotted, Saturn is still in between the constellation Virgo also Libra, in the evening hours of earlier, between 1900 to 22 hours at night, viewability.  The constellation Scorpio rises very early than a few months ago, rising very early in the later 1900 hours in the evening.

Saturn’s rising 1500 in the afternoon then its best seen from eastward in 63 degrees, at 1900 hours.  Luna, the moon recently rises very moderately early in the morning at 1020 hours, more lately in the evening settling at 2120 hours, at the moment for this week a quite haunted crescently shrouded moon, due this months clouded weathering.

One interesting thing this month, is that the southern cross gets higher also akin to the pointers, which points to the southern cross, in which one of many of four methods waypoints to find the southern pole in the night sky, among in which risen higher is the two cluster within or nearby Centaurs constellation is the global cluster Omega centurial also its open cluster the Jewel box its alias is known to be Kappa Crucis nearby the constellation in Crux.   As they rise up overhead, it becomes very hard to view on the telescope due that your viewing is very upwards.

So when you look up, beanie, warm layering clothing, hot chocolate, naming Milo, and a good stead fast telescope,  moderately excellent  camera gear taking those timeless photographs digitally, also a brilliant well robust Laptop in recording those starry timeless moments.

Lost three times again…?

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SOUTH Three points crux archerna

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If you lost in somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere…? There’re three ways in finding your way in way found, finding your way around on this Planet’s southern parts.  First thing, three things, bright starry objects in the night sky, the Southern Cross, The Canopus star also the Achernar.

Now this first method finding south is pretty much easy and effective, a you need is the star Crux, which is the,  tail end  of the  Southern Cross,  and Achernar. Once found, draw a straight tangent line between the two star points,  and bisect the line between Crux and Achernar. Once you found the  bisect in between that’s the celestial south pole ( where the red square is),  then through  left arm back  one eighty degrees, you found North, then the ninety degrees from both arms you swing your left and right arms clockwise you found East on you Left and West on your Right.

Lost in a southern type of way…?

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SOUTH TWO points crux archerna

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If you lost in somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere…? There’re three ways in finding your way in way found, finding your way around on this Planet’s southern parts. First thing, three things, bright starry objects in the night sky, the Southern Cross, The Canopus star also the Achernar.

Now this first method finding south is pretty much easy and effective, a you need is the star Crux, which is the, tail end of the Southern Cross (not to get confuse with the Diamond and false Cross, other wise shipwreack, very), and Achernar. Once found, draw a straight tangent line between the two star points, and bisect the line between Crux and Achernar. Once you found the bisect in between that’s the celestial south pole, then through left arm back one eighty degrees, you found North, then the ninety degrees from both arms you swing your left and right arms clockwise you found East on you Left and West on your Right.

With this in mind you’ll never get lost finding youir way around in the night without a compass, in the daytime that’s a different story.

LUNA PHOTO’S | of the month- September 2012

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starry veiw of the night sky looking towards west, Auckland

During this month the moon, was the predominate feature in the night sky, mostly the other stellar objects seen in Auckland westwards are fallen below  to the horizon, most of the wintery items are slowly making is way for the summery season of the night sky theatre.  The wintery actors in question whom grace us fallen early in the evening viewing of Auckland night sky,  still to be seen are in the range of directions of looking at between south to north west,  there are two distinctive globular clusters, 47 Tuc, also another cluster in the Centauras Constellation  which is has a cluster of least two million stars, and the previous cluster least one million,  both have roughly average distances of sixteen thousand light years, looking back in time, now that’s sixteen thousand times least ten trillion Km to travel ( that one light year of travelling within one year is a equitant  of least ten trillion Kilometres in distance).

Other actors in the night sky is the Jewel box, aka Kappa Crucis which is above the constellation Crux,  also the from it the pointers stars that lead to the Southern cross.  In which is one of the way point objects tools to find south using various methods in finding your compass directions,so you won’t get lost even though you’re in urban surroundings. Helping you to find south first, second north, then swing it to west to east in ninety degrees from north.

Other fallen actors of the night sky is the constellation Scorpio also right next to the tail is the half man half horse Archer Sagittarius is viewing even lower when viewed at 2000 hours at night. Has he bow the tip of the arrow to Scorpio’s heart a Red giant  Antares 603 light years away,  in between the direction of the readiness of the bow, is the centre direction of looking into the centre of the Milky way Galaxy.

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