Moon will approach the indicated planets: October 3 at night with a waxing phase of 0.94 - with Neptune, October 7 at night with a waning phase of 0.98 - with Uranus, October 17 in the afternoon with a waning phase of 0.08 - with Mars, October 18 in the morning with a waning phase 0.04 - with Venus, October 20 in the evening with the new moon - with Jupiter and Mercury, October 24 in the evening with a waxing phase of 0.16 - with Saturn, October 31 at night with a waxing phase of 0.76 - with Neptune. For observations, it is better to choose nights when the Moon does not pass near the observed planet near its full phases.
Visibility conditions are given for the middle latitudes of Russia (about 56° N). For cities to the north and south, the celestial bodies will be located at the indicated time, respectively, slightly lower or higher (by the difference in latitude) relative to their places in the Bratsk sky. To clarify the local visibility conditions of planets, use planetarium programs.
MERCURY moves in the same direction as the Sun through the constellations Virgo and Libra. The planet is not visible for the entire month, passing through a superior conjunction with the Sun on October 9. The movements of Mercury against the background of stars from September 30 to October 19 can be observed in the field of view of the SOHO coronagraph (Mercury is a bright object in the images, moving from right to left above the Sun). The angular distance from the Sun changes from 6° to 1° (at conjunction), then to 13° east of the Sun.
The apparent size of Mercury remains at 4 arcseconds with an incident magnitude from -1.4m to -0.6m. Mercury's phase changes from 0.98 to 1.0 (conjunction), then to 0.93. To successfully observe Mercury during periods of visibility, you need binoculars, an open horizon and a clear twilight sky.
VENUS moves in the same direction as the Sun through the constellations Leo and Virgo. The angular distance (elongation) from the Sun decreases per month from 24 to 17 degrees. The planet is visible for about an hour in the morning above the eastern horizon. On October 6, Venus passes 12 minutes of arc north of Mars.
The angular dimensions of the planet's disk decrease from 11 to 10 arcseconds. The planet's phase increases from 0.91 to 0.96 at a magnitude of -3.9m. Through a telescope, an oval is visible with a simultaneous decrease in the size of the planet, because the distance between Venus and Earth increases.
MARS moves in the same direction as the Sun through the constellations Leo and Virgo. The planet's brightness is +1.8m, and its angular size is about 3". The planet can be observed in the morning sky above the eastern horizon. At the beginning of the month, Mars is visible for 1.5 hours, by the end of the month increasing visibility to 2.5 hours in mid-latitudes .
For observations, a telescope with a lens diameter of 60-90 mm is required. The best time to observe details on the disk of Mars is the moment of opposition, which occurs every two years. At other times, Mars appears through a telescope as a tiny reddish disk with no details. The closest opposition of Mars will occur on July 27, 2018 (Great Opposition!).
JUPITER moves in the same direction as the Sun in the constellation Virgo. The gas giant is not visible in the sky all month, passing through conjunction with the Sun on October 27. The movements of Jupiter against the background of stars from October 18 to November 9 can be observed in the field of view of the SOHO coronagraph (Jupiter is a bright object in the images, moving from left to right above the Sun). The angular diameter of the giant planet in the sky is 30 arc seconds at brightness - 1.6m.
SATURN moves moves in the same direction with the Sun along the constellation Ophiuchus. The planet is observed in the evenings low above the southwestern horizon for less than 2 hours at mid-latitudes. The angular diameter of Saturn is 15 seconds of arc at a magnitude of +0.7m.
In a small telescope, the ring around the planet and the satellite Titan (+8m) are clearly visible. The apparent dimensions of the planet's ring are about 40x18 arcseconds. Currently, the planet's rings are open to 26° and the northern pole of the gas giant is illuminated by the Sun.
The position of Saturn in the evening sky in October 2017
URANUS moves backwards through the constellation Pisces near *omicron Pisces, approaching the moment of its opposition on October 19, 2017. The best period in 2017 for observing the distant planet has arrived, which will last until December. The capsized planet is visible throughout the night. The planet's brightness is +5.6m with an angular diameter of 3".
During periods of opposition, Uranus can be observed with the naked eye in a clear, transparent sky, in the absence of illumination from the Moon (near the new moon) and away from city lights. In a 150-mm telescope with a magnification of 80x and higher, you can see the greenish disk (“pea”) of the planet. The satellites of Uranus have a brightness less than +13m.
NEPTUNE moves backward along the constellation Aquarius near *lamda (3.7m), being near the moment of its opposition with the Sun. The planet can be found low above the horizon, where it is visible with optical instruments throughout the evening and night. The planet's brightness is +7.9m magnitude and is almost no different from the surrounding stars.
Binoculars or a telescope using star charts and a clear, transparent and moonless sky will help you find Neptune during periods of visibility. To view the disk of the planet, you need a 200 mm telescope with a magnification of 100 times or higher (with a clear sky). Neptune's satellites have a brightness less than +13m.
How the luminary will destroy our planet
A series of powerful solar flares attracted the attention of scientists and alarmed many of our fellow citizens. What is this, what is it fraught with? And don’t such active processes occurring on the star closest to us mean the beginning of any serious changes that could threaten earthly life in the foreseeable future? We tried to find answers to such questions with the help of research physicist Ivan Nazarenko.
September 2017 claims a place in the list of natural records, thanks to the powerful “cannonade” created by the Sun. One powerful outbreak, another... Powerful streams of electromagnetic energy that hit the Earth... Scientists warn of possible negative consequences in the form of communication failures, accidents on transport systems, and deterioration in the well-being of weather-dependent people. But could something more global follow?
Irreversible changes occur on the Sun throughout its entire “life” – millions of years. These are the laws of physics,” emphasizes Ivan Nazarenko. – In the end, quantitative changes will turn into qualitative ones, and our luminary, having exhausted, so to speak, an energy resource, will die. The overwhelming majority of experts believe that this may not happen very soon - in 5-8 billion years.
However, some of their colleagues are much more pessimistic and predict the likely onset of an imminent “solar demise.” They indicate the possible development of processes on the Sun, which will lead to a supernova explosion. As a result, the outer solar shell will explode and for some time will emit energy in enormous quantities - the same amount per second as the Sun released in normal mode over the previous 10 thousand years.
Some of the supporters of this version believe that one of the signs of the beginning of a supernova transformation is, among other things, powerful flares on the Sun.
– Could this process take a long time? In other words, will there be enough solar life for our lifetime?
– Scientists do not have a common opinion here. For example, the Dutchman Piers van der Meyer once stated that the Sun would go supernova in 2010. He called the discovered noticeable increase in the temperature of solar matter one of the arguments in favor of precisely this development of events. However, as we have seen, the Dutch researcher, fortunately, was mistaken. Although the processes of activation on our luminary have recently been noticeable. Among them, of course, are the current very powerful outbreaks. However, to be honest, we still cannot give an unambiguous answer to the question - will the Sun die in the foreseeable future? We still know too little about the star closest to us and what is happening to it.
– Can you imagine what the picture of the death of the Sun will look like if the gloomiest forecasts come true?
This is easier to do than to predict its “longevity.” Taking into account the distance to us from the star, earthlings will see its explosion about eight minutes later. The entire sky will be engulfed in a glow from the bright white flame emitted by the exploding star. The power of this glow will be such that night on the planet will disappear. Most likely, all living things - including people - will die at this first stage of the cataclysm.
Following this, streams of radioactive radiation will fall on the Earth - so powerful that the earth’s magnetic field cannot protect against them. Radiation will complete the destruction of flora and fauna. And all traces of their existence on the planet will then be incinerated: under the influence of anomalous solar radiation, the temperature on the Earth’s surface will quickly rise to 3-5 thousand degrees. All the water will evaporate and form a thick cloud cover at an altitude of tens of kilometers from the “ball”. But this is still only a “preliminary apocalypse.”
Due to the explosion, the Sun will “swell” many times, and the streams of plasma emitted by it will collapse on the Earth. This dynamic impact will cause our devastated, charred and melted planet to be knocked out of its orbit and set off on an unpredictable flight beyond the solar system.
However, other scientists argue that the Earth and at least some of its inhabitants still have a chance to survive a solar cataclysm. According to these predictors, the most likely process is in which the Sun will first turn into a red giant, and then, having ejected part of its matter into the surrounding space, become a white dwarf. With such a metamorphosis, our planet can be “pushed” by solar radiation to a greater distance from the star, and it will begin to rotate around it in an orbit with a large radius, which will ultimately protect the Earth from excessive overheating. There is a chance that these new conditions for the existence of the Earth in circumsolar space will be suitable for preserving biological life on the surface of the planet. Although we must not forget that with such an “emergency evacuation” our “ball” may collide, for example, with Mars. Here the chances of survival and preservation of the planet are zero.
As Nazarenko said, according to some scientists, periods of particularly high solar activity can influence events occurring on Earth, exacerbating the “negativity.” Here are just a few examples from the collection collected by the researcher.
The maximum solar activity was noted in 1937-1938. In this period:
On May 6, 1937, the world's largest German airship, the Hindenburg, crashed near New York;
On June 11, the trial in the “case of Marshal Tukhachevsky” ended in Moscow, which began large-scale repressions in the army;
in July, Japanese troops invaded China, during the war, Mikado's soldiers brutally killed many civilians;
On July 29, 1938, fighting between Red Army units and Japanese troops began in the Far East in the area of Lake Khasan;
From November 9 to 10, Kristallnacht occurred, when mass pogroms took place against Jews in Germany.
The solar “peak” of 1969 “came back” with a whole series of successful and failed coups d’etat and assassination attempts on state leaders:
On January 22, during a ceremonial meeting of the crews of the Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5 spacecraft, an attempt was made on the life of the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee L. I. Brezhnev;
On January 25, in North Yemen, the military tried to overthrow the government, but in the end they failed, all the conspirators were killed;
On March 25, under pressure from the high command of the army, the President of Pakistan, Field Marshal Ayub Khan, resigned;
On October 15, in the city of Las Anod, an unknown person in a police uniform shot the President of Somalia, Abdirashid Ali Shermark, and after that a military coup took place in this country;
in early December, unsuccessful coup attempts occurred in Libya and Sudan, one after another.
"Peak" of solar activity in 1979:
On January 16, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale occurred in the Iranian province of Khorasan;
in February–March, a short-lived but very fierce Sino-Vietnamese war broke out;
On August 11, two Tu-134 passenger planes collided over Dneprodzerzhinsk, killing 172 people, including football players of the Pakhtakor team;
On November 9, for ten minutes, the world was on the verge of a nuclear war due to a computer malfunction in the American NORAD system;
At the end of December, Soviet troops were brought into Afghanistan, and Afghan President Hafizullah Amin was killed during the storming of the palace.
"Peak" 1989:
On April 9, in Tbilisi, troops dispersed a rally attended by more than 60 thousand people, killing 16 people and injuring hundreds;
On June 4, two passenger trains burned down near Ufa as a result of a gas pipeline explosion, killing 575 people and injuring more than 670.
Another solar maximum occurred in 2000-2001:
On November 11, a stop train fire in the Austrian ski resort of Kaprun killed 155 people;
September 11, 2001 - the largest terrorist attack in the United States, hijacked airliners rammed the World Trade Center towers, killing about 3,000 people;
On October 4, a missile launched from the Crimean training ground during Ukrainian air defense exercises accidentally shot down a Russian airline Tu-154 passenger plane, killing 78 people;
Yesterday, October 17, 2017, at the beginning of nine in the morning, I received an SMS from a friend from Pskov: “Go outside, look at the Sun.” I went out, but the Sun was not visible due to dense clouds.
It turned out that in Pskov, which is 50 km away. from me to the northeast, people are discussing what is happening with the Sun. It had strange, jagged edges, and glowed an unnatural red color. Many people recorded this.
But this is what eyewitnesses told me. At some point, the Sun blinked and turned into a black circle in the sky. But it didn’t get dark! Then the daylight “turned on” again, but no one had time to photograph the moment at which it turned black. And most of them didn’t even see it.
Here are more photos of eyewitnesses from Pskov:
And today it turns out that on this day there was pitch darkness in Finland and Sweden...
As you might imagine, emergency phone numbers in the Scandinavian countries are red hot. The most common message was the start Ragnarok, of course. Ragnarok is translated as: - the end of the world.
There is no information about calls from Pskov residents to telephone 112. Ours don’t care about a light bulb or a lantern: - “the whole world is a mess, and the Sun is a fucking lantern.”
However, there are many videos that show the Sun flickering like a light bulb experiencing a power outage. Just 4 days ago in Nigeria, many people witnessed a stunning picture:
So... Do we continue to believe that the Sun is a hot star millions of kilometers away from us, or is it something else?
From other sources:
a reader writes:
I flew yesterday from Singapore to Samui at about 19 pm local time and took a picture of what looked like 2 suns, one was already setting - it was three times brighter and higher!
Filming in Odintsovo. New Moon - 10/19/2017
Two suns or sun and moon together in the sky:
Excerpt from the session:
Q: Why does your head hurt so much in the sun? How can the sun affect you like that?
A: Such and such radiation comes from it.
Q: What kind of object is this, look?
A: Some kind of chemical capsule, very high technology, its light is slightly shifted in the spectrum, not real yellow, kind of muted, dusty... there are some chemical reactions taking place... if the real sun is like that the joy of life, then here are just chemical reactions that give this artificial light... I can’t understand what the capsule itself looks like, it’s very similar to these broken fluorescent tubes. There is a similar reaction in this capsule. We perceive only a limited range of radiation, so we forget that in addition to the visible range, this chemical reaction also occurs. It somehow affects life expectancy, suppresses all functions... Each major city has its own chemical sun, they are synchronized with each other...
Q: Where is the real sun then?
A: There is light from above, the dome just removes these rays.
Q: Do you see one dome?
A: No, it’s like a layered cake...
I'll post the whole session later.
I would like to know your opinions on this matter:
How do you see the “sun” that hangs above us every day?
UPD from comm.:
This is the second day I have seen such a strange sun. I noticed this in the morning. The sun rises just opposite the windows and usually everything is filled with sunlight. And yesterday and this morning I saw just an orange ball that you can look at for a very long time and it doesn’t dazzle at all. The sun was the same at sunset. And I wasn’t the only one who watched it. Instagram of Pyatigorsk is replete with messages about the unusual sun.
The first thoughts that came to me were that they were doing something to the sun again. Well, people are being sold this official version: “The day before, Russians could see a blood-red sun in an orange sky. Social media users across Europe have written about this phenomenon in recent days. It was caused by Hurricane Ophelia, which hit the UK and Ireland. He brought sand from the Sahara, which turned the sky and sun orange."
It turns out that the sands are to blame for everything)
There was such sun that day in the Netherlands, although the news said that it was due to dust storms in the Sahara and smoke from forest fires in Portugal:
Reality is multidimensional, opinions about it are multifaceted. Only one or a few faces are shown here. You should not take them as the ultimate truth, because, and at each level of consciousness and. We learn to separate what is ours from what is not ours, or to obtain information autonomously)
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It turned out that in Pskov, which is 50 km away. from me to the northeast, people are discussing what is happening with the Sun. It had strange, jagged edges, and glowed an unnatural red color. Many people recorded this.
But this is what eyewitnesses told me. At some point, the Sun blinked and turned into a black circle in the sky. But it didn’t get dark! Then the daylight “turned on” again, but no one had time to photograph the moment at which it turned black. And most of them didn’t even see it.
Here are more photos of eyewitnesses from Pskov:
And today it turns out that on this day there was pitch darkness in Finland and Sweden...
As you might imagine, emergency phone numbers in the Scandinavian countries are red hot. The most common message was the start Ragnarok, of course. Ragnarok is translated as: - the end of the world.
There is no information about calls from Pskov residents to telephone 112. Ours don’t care about a light bulb or a lantern: - “the whole world is a mess, and the Sun is a fucking lantern.”
However, there are many videos that show the Sun flickering like a light bulb experiencing a power outage. Just 4 days ago in Nigeria, many people witnessed a stunning picture:
So... Do we continue to believe that the Sun is a hot star millions of kilometers away from us, or is it something else?
It's time to repair it in the Sun, or replace it under warranty
Yesterday, October 17, 2017, at the beginning of nine in the morning, I received an SMS from a friend from Pskov: “Go outside, look at the Sun.” I went out, but the Sun was not visible due to dense clouds.
It turned out that in Pskov, which is 50 km away. from me to the northeast, people are discussing what is happening with the Sun. It had strange, jagged edges, and glowed an unnatural red color. Many people recorded this.
But this is what eyewitnesses told me. At some point, the Sun blinked and turned into a black circle in the sky. But it didn’t get dark! Then the daylight “turned on” again, but no one had time to photograph the moment at which it turned black. And most of them didn’t even see it.
Here are more photos of eyewitnesses from Pskov:
And today it turns out that on this day there was pitch darkness in Finland and Sweden...
As you might imagine, emergency phone numbers in the Scandinavian countries are red hot. The most common message was the start Ragnarok, of course. Ragnarok is translated as: - the end of the world.
There is no information about calls from Pskov residents to telephone 112. Ours don’t care about a light bulb or a lantern: - “the whole world is a mess, and the Sun is a fucking lantern.”
However, there are many videos that show the Sun flickering like a light bulb experiencing a power outage. Just 4 days ago in Nigeria, many people witnessed a stunning picture:
So... Do we continue to believe that the Sun is a hot star millions of kilometers away from us, or is it something else?
