2007 Astronomy July 16 Issue

It's the transit of Venus. The transit of Venus is a rare astronomical phenomenon. It's interesting how it appears:

Always 8 years apart at a time; Again, more than 100 years apart. The last time so far was on June 8, 2004, and we astronomy enthusiasts saw it. And then there's what you said about June 6, 2012.

You can watch it all morning.

The attached picture is a simulated model of the transit of Venus at 9 o'clock Beijing time on June 6, 2012.

Only true astronomy enthusiasts know about this event.

A "transit of Venus" will occur that morning, which is an unusually rare phenomenon, and we will see Venus passing in front of the Sun, and we will see a small black dot on the surface of the Sun crossing the Sun's surface.

The last transit of Venus took place on June 8, 2004, and I witnessed the phenomenon of starvation in the sky, and the 2012 Congratulations should be the second time in my life that I saw it, so I was very lucky. If I miss this time, then the next time will be December 10, 2117, which means that we will never see each other again in this life or even our children in the rest of our lives.

It's like some comet collided.

December 10, 2011 at 7:33 p.m. Total lunar eclipse.

This total lunar eclipse will be the best observed lunar eclipse in China after the total lunar eclipse on January 10, 2001. The next total lunar eclipse will not take place until October 8, 2014; Like the total lunar eclipse on December 10, 2011, the full process will not be seen until January 31, 2018.

Forecast. It started at 7:33:32 p.m. that night.

Among them, the total lunar eclipse is 51 minutes long, and the process can be divided into 5 stages: initial loss, eclipse, eclipse, rebirth, and recirclement.

The first wane (when the Moon first touches the Earth's umbra, marking the beginning of the lunar eclipse), begins at 20:45:42.

Eclipse (incision of the western edge of the Moon to the western edge of the Earth's umbra, with the Moon just inside the Earth's umbra), begins at 22:06:16.

Eclipse (the center of the Moon is closest to the center of the Earth's umbra), begins at 22:31:48.

Birth of light (the eastern edge of the Moon is intangent to the eastern edge of the Earth's umbra, at which point the total eclipse phase ends), begins at 22:57:24.

Rounding (the western edge of the Moon is tangent to the eastern edge of the Earth's umbra, at which point the entire lunar eclipse ends), begins at 00:17:58.

There are so many celestial events in a year that there is no need to list them all. Just give a few important ones.

May 21, 2012, annular solar eclipse;

No one can reach the future.

2012 Major Celestial Phenomena:

January 31 – Eros (433 Eros), the second-largest near-Earth asteroid (NEA), will pass by about the distance of Earth. May 21 – Annular solar eclipse, visible in southern China, Taiwan, southern Japan.

June 6 – Transit of Venus.

November 13 – A total solar eclipse will be visible in northern Australia and the South Pacific Ocean.

November 28 – a partial lunar eclipse.

December 3 Jupiter conjunct. December 21 – the end of the Fifth Age of the Mayan calendar. In the ancient myths and legends of some tribes, the planet "Nibiru" will be the closest to the Earth on this day, causing an impact on the Earth.

There are also four relatively stable meteor showers each year, the Quadrantids in January (Quadrant is a discarded constellation name, which can be found between Dracon, Hercules, and Pastors in the early 20th century star charts), the Lyrid meteor shower in April, the Perseid I meteor shower in August, and the Geminid meteor shower in December.

Hope it helps!

It is recommended to buy a copy of the supplement "2012 Celestial Phenomena" that will be published at the end of this year, which is very complete.