During this period, the moon reaches its first quarter phase on Wednesday May 19th. On this date the half-illuminated moon is located 90 degrees east of the sun and sets near 2:00 local summer time (LST). This weekend the waxing crescent moon will set during the early evening hours and will not interfere with meteor observing.
Read MoreProduction of nitric oxide by a fragmenting bolide: An exploratory numerical study By Mihai L. Niculescu, Elizabeth A. Silber, Reynold E. Silber Abstract: A meteoroid’s hypersonic passage through the Earth’s atmosphere results...
Read MoreBy Eloy Peña Asensio, Josep M. Trigo Rodríguez, Albert Rimola, Jaime Izquierdo, Jaime Zamorano, Jordi Llorca, Joan Montanyà, Oscar van der Velde, Alberto Castro-Tirado, Manuel Moreno-Ibáñez, José A. Docobo, Pedro Pablo Campo,...
Read MoreDuring this period the moon reaches its new phase on Tuesday May 11th. On this date the moon is located near the sun and is invisible at night. This weekend the waning crescent moon will rise during the early morning hours but will not interfere with meteor observing as it will be too thin and only in the sky an hour or two prior to sunrise.
Read MoreElizabeth Silber points our attention at a recently published meteor related paper: A Numerical Approach to Study Ablation of Large Bolides: Application to Chelyabinsk This article has been published in Advances in Astronomy by...
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