“A small fleet of spacecraft is due to take off for Mars in July, including the NASA Mars 2020 rover ‘Perseverance’, and the first Mars missions from China and the United Arab Emirates. “
The Sky Above You – July 2020
Celtic Cosmos: ‘Space and Science Fiction’
For the month of August 2020, the Tsukure Hub on Ayr High Street will be given over to a space and science fiction exhibition organised by
Celtic Cosmos.
The Sky Above You – June 2020
The Moon will be Full on June 5th, with a faint penumbral lunar eclipse, and it will be New on June 21st, on which there will be an annular solar eclipse, visible from central Africa, northern India and China.
The Sky Above You – May 2020
The eta Aquarid meteor shower from Halley’s Comet peaks on 5th to 6th May, but moonlight will spoil it this year.
The Sky Above You – April 2020
The Moon will be Full on April 8th, which will be a Supermoon, full at its closest to Earth, and the brightest Moon of the year.
Supermoon
The Supermoon over Orkney at 6am on 9th of March 2020. Image by Kenny Armet
The Sky Above You – March 2020
There will be a Supermoon on 9th March, when the Moon will be Full and also at its closest to Earth.
Planets As Potatoes?
How did the planets form?
BY STEVE DRURY
Making a Movie of the Night Sky
“We are delighted to be developing new pathways for how citizen science can contribute to exploring the changing night sky.”
The Sky Above You – January 2020
This quarter also features an elaborate sequence of conjunctions of the Sun, the Moon and all the planets including the Earth
