Sunspot 11543 (top) and faculae, and Sunspot 11546 + a various small sunspots captured with a 100mm refractor + Vesa pro webcam +Solar filter. Ultraviolet filter and DIY focal reducer used with some captures.
15th Anniversary of the launch of the 1st Philippine satellite, Mabuhay 1, in 1997. Agila 2 (also known as Mabuhay 1 and ABS-5 after being acquired by Asia Broadcast Satellite), named after the critically endangered Philippine eagle, is a communications satellite launched on August 19, 1997. ...
Julius Lothar Meyer (August 19, 1830 - April 11, 1895) was a German chemist. He was contemporary and competitor of Dmitri Mendeleev to draw up the first periodic table of chemical elements. Some five years apart, both Mendeleev and Meyer worked with Robert Bunsen. Read more
Jennifer "Jennie" Bond (born 19 August 1950) is an English journalist and television presenter. She worked for fourteen years as the BBC's royal correspondent. Read more
Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche (birth name Tsering Paldrön, born August 19, 1967) is a rare example of a female Tibetan Buddhist lama. Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche is a teacher in both the Kagyu and Nyingma schools of Tibetan Buddhism. She speaks fluent English, Tibetan, and Hindi d...
The Samlesbury witches were three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury - Jane Southworth, Jennet Bierley, and Ellen Bierley - accused by a 14-year-old girl, Grace Sowerbutts, of practising witchcraft. Their trial at Lancaster Assizes in England on 19 August 1612 was one in a series of w...
50th Anniversary (1960), Sputnik 5 Launch (Carried Dogs Belka & Strelka) Korabl-Sputnik 2, also known as Sputnik 5 in the West, was a Soviet artificial satellite, and the third test flight of the Vostok spacecraft. Ot was the first spaceflight to send animals into orbit and return them safely b...
A total solar eclipse occurred on August 19, 1887. It was visible across Europe, Asia, and Japan. The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev ascended in a balloon near Moscow to observe this eclipse. Read more
Orbital elements:
2012 PD26
Epoch 2012 Aug. 1.0 TT = JDT 2456140.5 MPC
M 359.83674 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.01320849 Peri. 126.93409 +0.90572099 +0.41896233
a 17.7242238 Node 208.46216 -0.41900900 +0.86201584
e 0.3810595 Incl. 7.75925 -0.06403865 +0.28530554
P 74.6 H 11.2 G 0.15
From 12 observ...
Orbital elements:
2012 QK2
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 6.46995 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.13559558 Peri. 252.26054 +0.91736936 +0.35359014
a 3.7523704 Node 86.71715 -0.25892242 +0.87887448
e 0.5881561 Incl. 10.54907 -0.30231217 +0.32024000
P 7.27 H 17.8 G 0.15 U 9 MPEC 2012 - Q20
Orbital elements:
2012 QJ2 Earth MOID = 0.2457 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 13.14298 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.32731489 Peri. 152.12031 +0.89995299 +0.43558761
a 2.0852536 Node 182.31379 -0.43337779 +0.89842224
e 0.4158347 Incl. 27.52254 +0.04762674 -0.05568578
P 3.01 H 20.3...
Sunspot 11543 (top) and faculae, and Sunspot 11546 + a new sunspot on the limb of the Sun captured with a 80mm refractor + Vesa pro webcam +Solar filter + Baader contrast filter
A woman living near Riding Mountain believes she found pieces of a meteor close to her home. On Wednesday, she found two fragments with surfaces like "old elephant skin" -one the size of a football and the other larger, weighing in at approximately 25 kg. [url=http://www.brandonsun.co...
