Partial eclipse of Sun (Eclissi parziale di Sole)

This morning woke up at six, but it was worth it. I went to association of Maddaloni and I mounted my telescope to see partial eclipse of the Sun. The Soalr eclipse occurs when Sun, Moon and Earth are perfectly aligned.
This is only possible when the Moon crossed the Earth at the point, called "Node"
When the node is located between moon and Sun, the moon's shadow passes in some parts of the Earth's surface: there is a eclipse solar.
( questa mattina sveglia alle sei, ma ne eè valsa la pena.Sono andata all'associazione astrofili a Maddaloni e , dopo aver montato anche il mio telescopio, ho potuto ammirare l'eclissi parziale di Sole.
L'eclissi è un fenomeno piuttosto raro, avvine quando la Luna interseca la Terra in un punto chiamato "nodo".
Quando il nodo si trova tra Luna e Sole, l'ombra della luna, è proiettata in alcune parti della superficie terrestre: questa è chiamata eclissi solare.)
Here are some pictures of today (alcune foto di stamattina):

Merry Christmas to all

Geminidi

How many shooting stars tonight.Never seen so many.
The Geminidi, one of  the most active meteor shower of the years.
These meteors are quiet unusual, as they are generated from the debris of comet , but from the planet Phateon 3200, an asteroid in some very specific steps than can be very colse to the Earth.
the Geminidi meteors are fairly slow and therefore very nice to watch and quite photogenic. About 3% forms a spectacular trail trough the transition.

Quante stelle cadenti stasera.Non ne ho mai viste  così tante.
Le Geminidi, uno dei più attivi sciami meteorici dell'anno.
Queste meteoriti sono insolite, non sono generate dai resti di una cometa, ma da un pianetino chiamato Phateon 3200.
Le mateore delle Geminidi sono molto lente e molto belle da vedere e anche fotogeniche.

Evening observing for oasis of San Silvestro.-

Yesterday I attended the event organized by amateur astronomers maddalonesi.
The evening took place in the oasis of San Silvestro, San leucio.
The last night finally, I learned to distinguish  the most importat costellation of the winter sky and of course the most important stars.
For example how to find the North Star:
Join the two stars head of the wagon:Merak and Dubhe with an imaginary straight line and extends it to 5 times in the direction of Cassiopea.
this leads the Polar Star, whic indicates the north.
I learned to distinguish the costellation of Cepheus, the shape of house designed by children.
The largest costellation of the dragon with its faint stars, which lies between Ursa major and Ursa
Minor.
Moving south. we could admire the beautiful and great costellation of Orion, that would guide the costellation  of winter sky.
Costellation of Orion is accompanied by hunting dogs: Canis Minor, the main star is Procyon, Canis Major the principal main star is the beautiful and bright Sirio.
I learned that if you look at the first Aldebaran,the star of the costellation Taurus,I'll see better Pleiadi,  open cluster.
I finally learned to distinguish the costellation of Auriga.Its shape is a pentagon and its main star is Capella.
All this, accompanied by a good and hot mulled wine.

december stars

In the nights of December, looking east dress, we can see Orion followed by his hunting companions:
The child and the dog Canis Major, where Sirius shines the brighter the stars.
Not far to the left of Orion, the stars shine twins.Just above the bull and grim charioteer.
The faint stars of the Aquarium, they decline of western horizon, followed by fish and Pegasus.
To the north of the Big dipper was climing to the right of the pole,and the tail touches the horizon.

The Moon and the planets. 
Jupiter is the only planet to be visible in the evening sky.
The observatoring show the equatorial band disappeared a few months ago.
Saturn anticipates his arrival, but December is visible at night.
Venus bright, shining in the morning sky before dawn.

Major celestial events in December 2010
December 2: Venus, the star Spica of the Virgin, the moon, make a spectacular panorama of blue sky in the morning
December 13: in the night sky, the Moon in the first quarter will be found not far from brilliant Jupiter.
Looking at  Jupiter trought at telescope, will see its four brithest satellites,arranged on one side of the planet.
December 13 to14: maximum activity of the Geminids meteor shower, expected around 100 meteors for hours.
December 21: there will be a total eclipse of the moon, not visible from Italy.
December 22: will reache the winter solstice: the shortest day of the shadows longer.

Clear skies...

Lunar geological time scale

The lunar geological time scale is a division of the past history of the Moon in geological time:
Copernican Period: from 1100 billion years ago  to the present.
Eratosthenes Period: from 3200 to 1100 billion years ago.
Period Imbriano higher: from 3800 to 3200 billion years ago.
Period Imbriano below: from 3850 to 3800 billion years ago.
Nectarian Period: from 3920 to 3850 billion years ago.
Pre-Nectarian Period: from 4550 to 3920 billion years ago.

TROVATO IN UN METEORITE LA PRIMA FORMA DI VITA ALIENA

TROVATO IN UN METEORITE LA PRIMA FORMA DI VITA ALIENA
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