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Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun’s variability,

the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets

Over the past few centuries, our understanding of how the Sun drives space weather and climate

on the Earth and other planets has advanced at an ever increasing rate

July 2020 Celestial Events & Space Research News

July 2020 SkyMaps & Sky Guides will not be available until July 1st

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It is updated daily using Universal Time (UT) which is the same as GMT

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July 04 2020 – 11:35 UT

Earth at Aphelion


(furthest from the Sun – 1.017 AU)

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July 05 2020 – 05:44 UT

Full Buck Moon

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July 12 2020 – 19:27 UT

Moon at Apogee


(furthest from the Earth = 404,201 km) m

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July 13 2020 – 00:31 UT

Third Lunar Quarter

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July 20 2020 – 18:33 UT

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July 25 2020 – 04:54 UT

Moon at Perigee


(closest to the Earth = 368,367 km)

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July 27 2020 – 13:33 UT

First Lunar Quarter

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“d–Aquarid meteor shower”

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SpaceWeather Information & Resources

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Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun’s variability,

the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets

Over the past few centuries, our understanding of how the Sun drives space weather and climate

on the Earth and other planets has advanced at an ever increasing rate

August 2020
Live Celestial Events & Space Research News

August 2020 SkyMaps and Sky Guides are NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL August 1st

The Astronomy Picture of the Day feature will not be available until that date

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At the start of August 2020 the Sunspot Number is 0

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Alpha Capricornids Meteor Shower Peak

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August 03 2020 – 16:59 UT

Full Sturgeon Moon

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2020 Perseids Meteor Shower – Observation SkyMap for August 12/13 Peak

August 08 2020 – 13:51 UT

(furthest from the Earth = 404,658 km)

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August 11 2020 – 17:47 UT

Third Lunar Quarter

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2020 Perseids Meteor Shower – Observation SkyMap for TOMORROW

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2020 Perseids Meteor Shower – history and observing advice

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Perseids Meteor Shower – SkyMap for pre-dawn observations

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August 19 2020 – 03:42 UT

New Moon

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August 21 2020 – 10:59 UT

Moon at Perigee


(closest to the Earth = 363,513 km)

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August 25 2020 – 18:59 UT

First Lunar Quarter

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SpaceWeather Information & Resources

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Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun’s variability,

the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets

Over the past few centuries, our understanding of how the Sun drives space weather and climate

on the Earth and other planets has advanced at an ever increasing rate

September 2020
Live Celestial Events & Space Research News

September 2020 SkyMaps and Sky Guides are NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL September 1st

The Astronomy Picture of the Day feature will not be available until that date

It is updated daily using Universal Time (UT) which is the same as GMT

September 2020 –
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September 02 2020 – 06:23 UT

Full Harvest Moon

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September 06 2020 – 06:31 UT

Moon at Apogee


(furthest from the Earth = 405,606 km)

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Piscid meteor shower Peak

September 10 2020 – 10:28 UT

Third Lunar Quarter

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September 17 2020 – 12:00 UT

New Moon

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September 18 2020 – 13:44 UT

Moon at Perigee


(closest to the Earth = 359,081 km)

September 18 2020 –
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September 22 2020 – 03:31 UT

Alban Elfed

Autumnal Equinox

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September 23 2020 –
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September 24 2020 – 02:56 UT

First Lunar Quarter

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“Archaeoastronomy and the Maya”

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“Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica”

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“The 2300 BC Event – Vol. 1:

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M. M. Mandelkehr

“The 2300 BC Event takes a new look at an old puzzle: what happened
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Civilizations in Anatolia and Greece, through Egypt and the Middle East, and eastward to India and Central Asia were at their height. The collapse of these civilizations due to earthquakes and climatic changes has been mirrored by similar interruptions on all continents, in the Arctic, and extending to the Pacific.

The discontinuities have long puzzled archaeologists and historians. New religions and accompanying mythologies appeared at this time in all cultural regions describing bombardment and flooding from the skies.

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Simultaneous with the meteoroid fall was a huge downpouring of water which caused flash flooding. Extensive destruction and loss of life resulted. An astonishing aspect of the event was the formation of a ring surrounding the Earth, reflecting sunlight during the day, hiding some stars at night, and moving around the sky through a 24-hour period.

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“The 2300 BC Event Vol. 3:

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M. M. Mandelkehr

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The Earth’s encounter with a dense cluster of large objects would produce atmospheric phenomena very different from the pleasant and interesting night displays of meteor trails that are within our own experience.

The rain of objects would have generated extraordinary visual and auditory effects combined with ground vibrations; and under extreme conditions would bring about severe surface destruction and loss of life.

The overall event was associated by the people with powerful deities and formed the basis for major religions. The mythologies and traditions are, in large part, the residues of those religions.”

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“Archaeoastronomy of Southeast Colorado and the Oklahoma Panhandle”

William R McGlone

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“A Little History of

Astro-Archaeology:

Stages in the Transformation

of a Heresy”

John Michell

“Stonehenge today is a battlefield, not only for police and festivalgoers at midsummer but also for rival camps of archaeologists, astronomers, and other researchers into the mysteries of prehistoric religion and science.

This “little history” summarizes the issues involved in astro-archaeology, and illustrates its principal sites and personalities. Included are recent findings of British scientists, whose records of anomalous levels of natural energies at stone circles are in accordance with the magical reputations of such places in local folklore.”

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“Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy:

From Giza to Easter Island”

by


Giulio Magli

“This complete, authoritative study of the growing discipline of Archaeoastronomy examines the role of astronomy in antiquity. Professor Giulio Magli provides a clear, up-to-date survey of current thinking on the motives of the ancients for building fabulous and mysterious monuments all over our planet. Was it an attempt to reproduce the sky on Earth, to bring down the power of the stars to where they could see it, worship it and use it?

The connecting thread is astronomy: Giulio Magli uses astronomy as a key to understanding our ancestors’ way of thinking. It is a challenge he likes to call ‘predicting the past’ – archaeology as a science is able to make predictions, like any other science, and to check them.

All of the astronomical achievements of the past are considered as a whole, in a comprehensive way that shows the depth and breadth of the thought behind them. In the past, the motives of the ancients – and particularly their scientific thought – have often been misconstrued, maligned or even dismissed.

In an ironic, provocative style, Professor Magli shows the limitations of orthodox archaeology in the face of astronomically-based artefacts and tries to understand what led the ancients to construct magnificent buildings such as the city of Teotihuacan in the Mexico Valley, the Ceremonial Centre of Chaco Canyon in the USA, the Avebury stone circle in Great Britain or the Great Pyramids in Egypt.

The book is divided into two parts. In the first, the reader is taken on an ideal ‘world tour’ of many wonderful and enigmatic places in almost every continent, in search of traces of astronomical knowledge and lore of the sky. In the second part, Giulio Magli uses the elements presented in the tour to show that the fundamental idea which led to the construction of the astronomically-related giant monuments was the foundation of power, a foundation which was exploited by ‘replicating’ the sky.

A possible interpretive model then emerges that is founded on the relationship the ancients had with “nature”, in the sense of everything that surrounded them, the cosmos. The numerous monumental astronomically aligned structures of the past then become interpretable as acts of will, expressions of power on the part of those who held it; the will to replicate the heavenly plane here on earth and to build sacred landscapes.”

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“Under Ancient Skies:

Ancient Astronomy and

Terrestrial Catastrophism”

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Paul Dunbavin

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“A Sumerian Observation of the Kofels’ Impact Event”

by


Mark Hempsell

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Alan Bond

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“Ancient Astronomers:

Exploring the Ancient World”

by


Anthony F. Aveni,

Jeremy A. Sabloff

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“Stonehenge: A New Interpretation of Prehistoric Man and the Cosmos”

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John David North

“Stonehenge has fascinated mankind for centuries, enveloping generation after generation in its haunting mystery. But while much has been learned about this ancient monument, the fundamental questions remain: Who built it? What was its purpose? How was it used?

Drawing on more than 15 years of research, John North has at last succeeded where others have failed. He comprehensively examines Stonehenge from all available angles — archeological, astronomical, and spiritual — and considers relevant research from other prehistoric remains in Britain and Northern Europe. He shows, for the first time, that the stones were not so much sighting devices as maps of the heavens and that the design of the monument evolved over thousands of years rather than conforming to a single original blueprint.

Such observations form the basis of deductions about prehistoric life and religion that will profoundly affect our understanding of who we are and where we came from.”

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“Avebury Cosmos:

The Neolithic World

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Nicholas R. Mann

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“The Newgrange Sirius Mystery”

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E. A. James Swagger

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“Megalithic Measures

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Sacred Knowledge of the

Ancient Britons”

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Anne Macaulay

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“Archaeoastronomy

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Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos


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Edwin L. Barnhart

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“Asteroids:

Relics of Ancient Time”

Michael K. Shepard

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“Comets: A Chronological History of Observation, Science, Myth

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Donald K. Yeomans

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“Life in the Universe:
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Astrobiology”
by

Lewis Dartnell

“An excellent introduction into the newly emerging and exciting field of astrobiology. An essential, enjoyable and highly readable insight into life in its cosmic context.”

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“Planets and Life: The Emerging Science of Astrobiology”

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Woodruff T. Sullivan III


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“Astrobiology involves the study of the origin and history of life on Earth, planets and moons where life November have arisen, and the search for extraterrestrial life.

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“Complete Course in Astrobiology”

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Gerda Horneck

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“This up-to-date resource is based on lectures developed by experts in the relevant fields and carefully edited by the leading astrobiologists within the European community.

Aimed at graduate students in physics, astronomy and biology and their lecturers, the text begins with a general introduction to astrobiology, followed by sections on basic prebiotic chemistry, extremophiles, and habitability in our solar system and beyond.”

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“Astrochemistry: From Astronomy

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Andrew M. Shaw

“The dynamic field of astrochemistry brings together ideas of physics, astrophysics, biology and chemistry to the study of molecules between stars, around stars and on planets. Astrochemistry: from Astronomy to Astrobiology provides a clear and concise introduction to this rapidly evolving multidisciplinary subject.

Starting with the Molecular Universe, the text covers the formation of the elements, simple models of stars and their classification. It then moves on to draw on the theme of the Origins of Life to study interstellar chemistry, meteorite and comet chemistry as well as the chemistry of planets.”

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“Fitness of the Cosmos for Life: Biochemistry and Fine-Tuning”
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John Barrow
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Simon Conway Morris
(Editor)
Stephen Freeland
(Editor)
Charles Harper
(Editor)

“This highly interdisciplinary book highlights many of the ways in which chemistry plays a crucial role in making life an evolutionary possibility in the universe.

Celebrating the classic 1913 work of Lawrence J. Henderson, The Fitness of the Environment for Life, this book looks at the delicate balance between chemistry and the ambient conditions in the universe that permit complex chemical networks and structures to exist.”

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