Saturday, May 10, 2014

Cosmos a spacetime odyssey


Cosmos : A Spacetime Odyssey is a documentary television series from 2014. 
Currently the show is running on the National Geographic Channel. 
The program is based on the 1980 series presented by Carl Sagan, Cosmos :  A Personal Voyage. 
As a small kid I was impressed by this presentation and probably it also started my intrest in the cosmos. 
As with the first series, this new one has in total 13 episodes which will tell the story of our cosmos. 



Sunday, May 4, 2014

Possible meteor shower May 24th

Dust particles spread along Comet 209P/Linear's orbit may enter Earth's atmosphere, creating a meteor shower with a ZHR between 100 and 400 meteors/hr. Some media even speculate of a meteor storm with more than 1000 meteors an hour.

In Europe, the morning (3AM-6AM CET) of May 24th is predicted to be the best to observe. For North America best timing is around midnight May 23-24th.