Full Moon
Anywhere ME, United StatesThe Moon will be fully illuminated as seen from Earth.
Versant Power Astronomy Center and Maynard Jordan Planetarium
Versant Power Astronomy Center and Maynard Jordan Planetarium
23 events found.
Anywhere
Events at this venue
-
-
New Moon
Anywhere ME, United StatesA New Moon occurs when the Sun and Moon have the same ecliptical longitude. This is the first phase of the lunar cycle, meaning this celestial body will not be visible in the sky.
-
Meteor Shower
Anywhere ME, United StatesThe Perseid meteor shower will be peaking. This is one of the best meteor showers to observe because it produces up to 60 meteors an hour.
-
Full Moon
Anywhere ME, United StatesThe Moon will be fully illuminated as seen from Earth.
-
Meteor Shower
Anywhere ME, United StatesThe Delta Aquarids meteor shower will be peaking. The nearly full moon will make observing difficult.
-
New Moon
Anywhere ME, United StatesA New Moon occurs when the Sun and Moon have the same ecliptical longitude. This is the first phase of the lunar cycle, meaning this celestial body will not be visible in the sky.
-
New Horizons
Anywhere ME, United StatesAfter 9 years of travel, New Horizons, an unmanned space ship, will fly by Pluto and will continue moving deeper into the Solar System.
-
Full Moon
Anywhere ME, United StatesThe Moon will be fully illuminated as seen from Earth.
-
Celestial Bodies
Anywhere ME, United StatesVenus and Jupiter will appear within .3° of each other.
-
Summer Solstice
Anywhere ME, United StatesMarks the first day of Summer!
-
New Moon
Anywhere ME, United StatesA New Moon occurs when the Sun and Moon have the same ecliptical longitude. This is the first phase of the lunar cycle, meaning this celestial body will not be visible in the sky.
-
Venus at Greatest Eastern Elongation
Anywhere ME, United StatesVenus will be at it’s highest point in the sky as seen from Earth. This is one of the best times to observe the Evening Star.
-
Full Moon
Anywhere ME, United StatesThe Moon will be fully illuminated as seen from Earth.
-
Saturn at Opposition
Anywhere ME, United StatesSaturn will be it's closest to Earth in it's orbit and the ringed planet will appear it's fullest and brightest.
-
New Moon
Anywhere ME, United StatesA New Moon occurs when the Sun and Moon have the same ecliptical longitude. This is the first phase of the lunar cycle, meaning this celestial body will not be visible in the sky.
-
Mercury at Greatest Eastern Elongation
Anywhere ME, United StatesMercury will be at it's highest point in the sky as seen from Earth. This is one of the best times to observe the innermost planet.
-
Full Moon
Anywhere ME, United StatesThe Moon will be fully illuminated as seen from Earth.
-
International Dark Sky Week
Anywhere ME, United StatesIt is very important to preserve the night sky by limiting the amount of light we allow into our atmosphere.. For the week of the 13th, many organizations are promoting that we not use outdoor lighting, and refrain from using lights at night time. The Dark Sky Association started this event to inspire people to […]
-
The Geminid Meteor Shower
Anywhere ME, United StatesThe Geminids can be observed annually between December 4 and December 17, with its peak activity being around December 14. The shower owes its name to the constellation Gemini from where the meteors seem to emerge from in the sky. Unlike most other meteor showers, the Geminids are associated not with a comet but with […]
-
A Partial Eclipse of the Sun
Anywhere ME, United StatesThe moon's penumbral shadow will fall over much of North America as well as extreme eastern Siberia, producing a partial solar eclipse. Greatest eclipse, with more than four-fifths of the sun's diameter covered by the moon, will occur in M'Clintock Channel, an arm of the Arctic Ocean which divides Victoria Island from Prince of Wales […]
-
Near Collision of a Comet with Mars
Anywhere ME, United StatesAll eyes will be on the Red Planet in October as Comet C/2013 A1(Siding Spring), discovered by Robert H. McNaught at Australia's Siding Spring Observatory, will pass extremely close to Mars. The comet will come so close, in fact, that its coma may envelop Mars, as well as create a stupendous shower of meteors as seen […]
-
A Brilliant Double Planet
Anywhere ME, United StatesAn hour before sunrise, low in the east-northeast sky, the two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, will be strikingly close together. The two worlds will be separated by less than two-thirds of the apparent width of the moon in our sky, making for a very eye-catching sight.
-
The Perseid Meteor Shower
Anywhere ME, United StatesThe Perseid meteor shower, one of the brighter meteor showers of the year, occur every August, peaking around August 9-13. Consisting of tiny space debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle, the Perseids are named after the constellation, Perseus. This is because, their radiant or the direction of which the shower seems to come from lies in the same […]