Portal talk:Astronomy/Events
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I altered the Events code so that we can create monthly pages which will appear automatically at the start of each month. I've put together tables for upcoming months, which I can put into the relevant pages, but I thought I'd check here first, see if anyone has any suggestions for improving them first, or if there's a better way of doing it than this. Worldtraveller 20:07, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
| May 2005 | |
|---|---|
| 5 May | Eta Aquarids meteor shower: up to 60 meteors per hour |
| 8 May, 08:46 | New moon |
| 15 May, 11:01 | Mars lies only 1°06' from Uranus |
| 23 May, 20:19 | Full moon |
| June 2005 | |
|---|---|
| 6 June, 21:56 | New moon |
| 14 June, 03:15 | Pluto is at opposition |
| 22 June, 04:14 | Full moon |
| 26 June, 12:34 | Mercury lies only 1°21' from Saturn |
| 26 June, 02:35 | Venus lies only 1°16' from Saturn |
| 27 June, 16:03 | Mercury lies only 0°03' from Venus |
| 27 June | June Bootids meteor shower: up to 50 meteors per hour |
| July 2005 | |
|---|---|
| 6 July, 12:03 | New moon |
| 9 July, 03:19 | Mercury is at greatest eastern elongation |
| 21 July, 11:01 | Full moon |
| 28 July | Southern Delta Aquarids meteor shower: up to 20 meteors per hour |
| August 2005 | |
|---|---|
| 5 August, 03:05 | New moon |
| 8 August, 16:10 | Neptune is at opposition |
| 12 August | Perseids meteor shower: up to 100 meteors per hour |
| 19 August, 17:53 | Full moon |
| 23 August, 23:18 | Mercury is at greatest western elongation |
| September 2005 | |
|---|---|
| 1 September | Alpha Aurigids meteor shower: up to 10 meteors per hour |
| 1 September, 21:44 | Venus lies only 1°13' from Jupiter |
| 1 September, 03:02 | Uranus is at opposition |
| 3 September, 18:46 | New moon |
| 18 September, 02:01 | Full moon |
| October 2005 | |
|---|---|
| 3 October, 10:28 | New moon; Annular solar eclipse lasting up to 04m32s Visible from Europe, Africa, south Asia |
| 5 October, 19:41 | Mercury lies only 1°18' from Jupiter |
| 8 October | Draconids meteor shower: usually weak; occasionally up to 1000 meteors per hour |
| 17 October, 12:14 | Full moon; Partial lunar eclipse lasting 00h58m Visible from Asia, Australia, Pacific, North America |
| 21 October | Orionids meteor shower: up to 20 meteors per hour |
| November 2005 | |
|---|---|
| 2 November, 01:25 | New moon |
| 3 November, 15:50 | Venus is at greatest eastern elongation |
| 3 November, 15:50 | Mercury is at greatest eastern elongation |
| 7 November, 08:20 | Mars is at opposition (apparent magnitude –2:3) |
| 16 November, 00:58 | Full moon |
| 17 November | Leonids meteor shower: up to 20 meteors per hour |
| December 2005 | |
|---|---|
| 1 December, 15:01 | New moon |
| 12 December, 12:41 | Mercury is at greatest western elongation |
| 14 December | Geminids meteor shower: up to 120 meteors per hour |
| 15 December, 16:16 | Full moon |
| 22 December | Ursids meteor shower: up to 10 meteors per hour |
| 31 December, 03:12 | New moon |
If the events are not removed from the upcoming events list because the process is automated, then it really shouldn't be upcoming events. Phoenix2 19:26, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Very true - I've changed the heading there to 'Astronomical events in current month'. Worldtraveller 09:37, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Astronomical events in October
How does one edit the list of astronomical events in the current month? "Orionid" is misspelled "Orionide". I would also like to add mention of the Giacobinid (Draconid) meteor shower peaking on October 8, and the occulation of the Pleiades by the Moon on October 9/10. --Shawn81 05:52, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
- I added an 'edit' help link to make this easier. Thanks for helping out! Awolf002 11:29, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
- Excellent, thanks so much. I added the discussed events to the list. Thanks for letting me do the honors. :) --Shawn81 12:09, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for that Awolf. I remember it took me like 5 minutes to find the page for September events when I was trying to check it out. At least, now I have easy access. --Nishkid64 00:15, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
- Excellent, thanks so much. I added the discussed events to the list. Thanks for letting me do the honors. :) --Shawn81 12:09, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
- Your welcome! I hope you will find even more possible improvments to this portal. It would be nice to get it featured at some point. Awolf002 01:22, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
