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Speaker 1: dot com. Let's continue now as we move into month
Speaker 1: number ten, October twenty twenty four, and lots of things
Speaker 1: are happening by far by a vote of the public,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure you might agree, or if you've heard
Speaker 1: this for the first time, I hope you would agree
Speaker 1: that a most amazing comet soon to be visible in
Speaker 1: our skies, has just passed its closest encounter to the Sun.
Speaker 1: It's a common officially known as Comet twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: A three, otherwise known as Comet chu chin Shan Atlas.
Speaker 1: The chu chin Shan part of that description comes from
Speaker 1: its discovery at a Chinese observatory known as the Purple
Speaker 1: Mountain Observatory and Thus, as we convert that word Chew
Speaker 1: Chin Shan into the Purple Mountain observatory. Why is this
Speaker 1: comet important? Out of the deep dark recess of the
Speaker 1: Solar system where comets lie, These are objects that are
Speaker 1: left over from the creation of the Solar system billions
Speaker 1: of years ago. It's alleged that this particular comet has
Speaker 1: an eighty thousand year period, So if you're lucky enough
Speaker 1: to see it, be part of history. The comet passed
Speaker 1: closest to the Sun back on September the twenty seventh
Speaker 1: and is now putting on it regularly. Well, probably a
Speaker 1: good show in the morning sky just before sunrise, but
Speaker 1: the best is yet to come. The comet will be
Speaker 1: closest to the Earth on October thirteenth, no problem of
Speaker 1: it hitting us at a distance of just a little
Speaker 1: over forty three million miles. Doctor Sky suggests that you
Speaker 1: prepare for its evening apparition. In simple language, that means
Speaker 1: the comet is transitioning from the morning sky into the
Speaker 1: evening sky. And guess what This commet could also be
Speaker 1: visible in daylight. Now, if that sounds to be a
Speaker 1: most amazing statement, we'll go back to the year two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven, when a comet known as Comet McNaught
Speaker 1: was easy to be seen just next to the brightness
Speaker 1: of the sun. But we warn you about abusing binoculars
Speaker 1: or telescopes when any object is that close to the sun.
Speaker 1: But here it is we find the best times for
Speaker 1: looking at this commet Comet Chew Jean Shan will probably
Speaker 1: be somewhere between October the twelfth and October the sixteenth.
Speaker 1: For skywatchers that may want to try this experiment, I
Speaker 1: caution you ahead of time. The commet, as I mentioned before,
Speaker 1: may be just a few degrees away from the Sun.
Speaker 1: On the day of October the sixth, the comet will
Speaker 1: be some ten degrees to the right of the sun,
Speaker 1: may be as bright as the planet Venus. Continuing on
Speaker 1: October the second, some seven degrees to the right of
Speaker 1: the Sun, October the eighth, about four and a half
Speaker 1: degrees above the disk of the Sun, October the ninth
Speaker 1: four degrees above unto the left, and finally October the tenth,
Speaker 1: the comet, if visible in daylight, seven degrees to the
Speaker 1: upper left of the Sun. But take preparations and always
Speaker 1: protect your eyes. How we did this and I don't
Speaker 1: really recommend it is that we block the sun with
Speaker 1: a building and carefully observe this particular object to comet
Speaker 1: by scanning the skies, making sure that you are careful
Speaker 1: enough not to let the light of the sun get
Speaker 1: into the binunculars. But for the rest of us, I
Speaker 1: recommend the safe viewing starting on the evenings of October
Speaker 1: the twelfth through the sixteenth. The comet may lie just
Speaker 1: a few degrees above the horizon in the western sky
Speaker 1: just after sunset. By that particular time, the comet may
Speaker 1: have forward scattering of its light, meaning that you will
Speaker 1: be able to see the ti where the sun, of
Speaker 1: course is illuminating it from the back end. This tale
Speaker 1: could be a few degrees to up to ten degrees long,
Speaker 1: making this comet Comet chew chein Shan an amazing sight.
Speaker 1: We'll keep updating you, but if you'd like to go
Speaker 1: and learn much more about how to find it for
Speaker 1: our more advanced observers, just go to the Skylive dot com,
Speaker 1: a great resource that we use here on the Doctor
Speaker 1: Sky Experience. And if you thought that was just the
Speaker 1: big story of the month, another new comet, a sungrazer
Speaker 1: known as Comet twenty four S one was just discovered,
Speaker 1: and this particular commet may also be bright in the
Speaker 1: evening sky toward the end of the month of October.
Speaker 1: We'll keep you posted on that, and so many more
Speaker 1: interesting things are happening. Let's turn our attention to the
Speaker 1: Sun in solar cycle twenty five. Just a few days ago,
Speaker 1: we realized that the Sun puts out one of the
Speaker 1: most amazing X flares of this whole cycle. And as
Speaker 1: we move on here to October third, the day we're
Speaker 1: doing this pre recording, we find the most powerful solar
Speaker 1: flare of this solar cycle twenty five appeared near the
Speaker 1: center of the Sun. On the X level scale, the
Speaker 1: highest scale, it was upwards of a nine. That's pretty powerful.
Speaker 1: It simply means that if you keep your eyes looking
Speaker 1: to the northern sky any time after midnight, you may
Speaker 1: get to see sightings of the most beautiful Aurora borealis.
Speaker 1: The moon was new on the second, It was at
Speaker 1: apigee or farthest on the second also, and it continues
Speaker 1: to get very close to the planet Venus on the
Speaker 1: evening of the fifth in the western sky. Also, the
Speaker 1: moon moves on to first quarter on the tenth, a
Speaker 1: great time to observe the Moon in a pair of
Speaker 1: binoculars or a telescope to see the difference between lightning
Speaker 1: and darkness on the surface of the Moon. The grit
Speaker 1: the best of shadow relief, is then a visible to
Speaker 1: your eye. The moon reaches perigy on the seventeenth, with
Speaker 1: another of the beautiful full supermoons occurring on the seventeenth
Speaker 1: of October. We also find the moon moving on to
Speaker 1: its last quarter on the twenty fourth, and the cycle
Speaker 1: and the beat goes on. For planets. As I mentioned before,
Speaker 1: the Moon and the planet Venus are close on the
Speaker 1: evening of the fifth in the west after sunset. The
Speaker 1: planet Saturn is high in the southeast. At sunset, a
Speaker 1: telescope will reveal a nearly edge on ring system. Most
Speaker 1: fascinating for sure for early morning risers by around five
Speaker 1: a m. Look nearly overhead five a m local time
Speaker 1: your time. The planet Jupiter lies high up into the
Speaker 1: sky in the borderline area of Torres and Gemini, and
Speaker 1: just a little bit to the left the planet Mars,
Speaker 1: the red god of war, moves into the central region
Speaker 1: of the constellation of Gemini. The twins. So much information
Speaker 1: here and so little time to talk about it. But
Speaker 1: if you happen to have a question or comment, I
Speaker 1: am there for you. My email is d R Sky
Speaker 1: Doctor Sky Show at gmail dot com. And we do
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Speaker 1: on to Frank Morano's great show The Other Side of Midnight,
Speaker 1: where we both agree to change the name, albeit for
Speaker 1: an hour to cosmic conversations with me, Doctor Sky. Stay
Speaker 1: in touch. There's so much to see and also, to
Speaker 1: wrap it up, an interesting meteor shower on the morning
Speaker 1: of the twenty first. We're talking about the Orioned meteor shower.
Speaker 1: If you get to see any of these meteors looking
Speaker 1: high into the east just before dawn and then high
Speaker 1: into the south literally just at the time of sunrise,
Speaker 1: you may get to see upwards of twenty or thirty
Speaker 1: of these so called shooting stars. If you see any
Speaker 1: you're seeing commentary debris from Comet periodic Comet one, Halley's
Speaker 1: comment one of the most famous comets of all time.
Speaker 1: Until next time, it wish you health and happiness, and
Speaker 1: always remember for you to keep your feet on the
Speaker 1: ground and your eyes to the skies. I work hard
Speaker 1: as you do, to be your humble navigator on the
Speaker 1: highway to the heavens. On that highway there are no tolls,
Speaker 1: So get out and observe the beauty of our October skies.
Speaker 1: We'll see you on the radio.