Earth Hour @ Planetarium!

Tis’ the second time we will be participating in the Earth Hour event in the National Planetarium! What better to do in times of darkness than gazing up at the awesome cosmos? Join us and the Planetarium for a night to remember!

Admission is FREE
as all Planetarium events are. The schedule will be as follows :
In the day!

Time	Event
0730	Exercise
0830	Registration for activities
0930-1030	Colouring Contest, ‘Space Recipe’ Cookout, Visit to Observatory, See the sun through a telescope!
1100-1200	National Planetarium 18th anniversary celebrations and Prize Giving Ceremony
1200-1300	Seminar on the Sun
1300-1320	Planetarium 3D Show ‘Solar Storm’
1400-1600	Free Planetarium Shows

At Night!

Time	Event
1930	Registration
2000	Star Partay!
2030	Sharing session : Wonders of the Universe, slideshows, ‘Night walk’ and ‘Space Hunt’ activity
2230	Good night

Also, don’t forget to look out for the Stargazer Society members  in the event! See you there! : )

Some Photographs

Venus – Jupiter – Moon conjunction with Pleiades Cluster in upper right corner.

This is the nearest we can get to a celestial ‘Smiley’. Some of you might remember seeing a smiley in the sky back around December 2008. The next time a smiley occurs will be around 2036.

Other than that, notice the round shape around the crescent Moon. It is called Earthshine, light reflected on the Moon from the Earth!

Winter Constellations : – Orion the Hunter, Gemini the Twins, Canis Major the Greater Dog, Canis Minor the Lesser Dog.

Another region of the Winter Sky –  This time with full Canis Major

Another region of the Winter Sky – feat. Taurus the bull and Pleiades Star Cluster

An afocal photograph of Saturn through 150x magnification. Saturn’s rings are appearing good this year – there are times where the rings are exactly perpendicular to our view and we can’t see a thing!

Near the Moon’s terminator, the boundary between sunrise and sunset on the moon, more craters could be seen due to the interaction of the light and shadows.

And finally, Scorpio and his summer friends are nudging up higher and higher each day as the summer season approaches! Summer is neat for its showcases of star clusters and other deep sky objects!

Anatomy of a Sun Storm! Infographic

Source SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration

Clash of the titans

Okay, not the Saturn’s moon Titan, but the titans in terms of brightness in our night sky. This March, witness the glory of the geometry of the solar system as Jupiter and Venus gets really close from the Earth’s point of view!

The Red Haze

Some of you might think of this!

Actually, it’s not far off from the real thing.

A light pollution example in the busy city of Hong Kong.
When the modern world started to embrace this,