On Sunday evening, August 10, there will be “superlunie.” Department of Science “Gazety.Ru”, speaking about the fact that the observed July 12-13 astronomical phenomenon was not present “superluniem” now recommends to enjoy the view of the full moon and starry sky, as well as offers to prepare for observations “August stargazing” as Perseid meteor shower is close to the maximum of the next week.
August 10, 2014 the world will be a “superlunie.” Almost a month ago, on July 12-13, in the world has risen an incredible excitement caused by the upcoming event. Department of Science, then drew the attention of his readers to the fact that the present “superlunie” will be August 10.
It is surprising that now, when there will be a largest in 2014 visible disk Moon, in the world there are few who writes of the event.
The term “superlunie” implies coincidence in time between the moment of perigee, when the Moon passes closest to the Earth point of its orbit, and the time of the full moon, that is, when viewed from the Earth’s hemisphere of the Moon lit by the Sun at 100%. In the scientific literature, this term does not occur: it simply is not necessary, as the observations of the moon is now held regularly and at a high level, including a spacecraft that are in the immediate vicinity of the Moon. According to the English version of “Wikipedia”, the term is not a professional astronomy as “originated in modern astrology».
In fact, the moment of “superluniya” will have on Sunday at the gap between the two events. First Moon perigee pass – it will happen in 17.44 GMT (21.44 Moscow time). Slightly less than half an hour, to 18.11 GMT (22.11 Moscow time), there will come the time of the full moon. By this time the moon will be in Moscow already visible: it goes back to 20.35 local time.
July 12-13 as Perigee full moon and the time shared as much as 21 hours!
In fact, only now cloudy or smoke from fires of peat bogs may interfere enjoy the view of a large disk of the full
Department of Science recommends that you use this opportunity and be sure to fix the natural beauty.
And, by the way, one superluniem list of interesting astronomical phenomena in the evening is not exhausted. Firstly, in central Russia in the evening and morning twilight, you can observe the appearance of noctilucent clouds.
These clouds – illuminated by the sun from the horizon of crystals of water ice. Water is collected and crystallized around meteoroids – small particles in space. Noctilucent clouds appear in the summer due to the fact that during this period, the water molecules are actively transported from the lower layers of the atmosphere at the top, where they meet with microparticles of cosmic origin.
About another phenomenon science department “Gazety.Ru” write in detail in the coming Tuesday: a Perseid meteor shower, which will have a maximum on the night of 12th to 13th of August. Widespread expression “the August meteor shower” is related to this thread, which owes its origins to comet Swift – Tuttle , open in the middle of the XIX century and returning to the Sun every 130 years. The name of the meteor shower was because if the mind will continue to follow its “falling stars” back then as a result they all come together at about the same point in the sky – not far from the star Gamma in the constellation Perseus.
At maximum flow, astronomers expect to see up to 100 meteors per hour, though the observations and will not interfere with the bright nearly full moon.
And on Sunday night, the Perseid activity, according to observers from around the world that were sent to the World Meteor Organization , already amounted to about 30 meteors per hour.
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