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 Aquariids 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 Aquariids 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)

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)

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)

Update

So long time no one has updated this field? Newone (talk) 10:33, 10 May 2010 (UTC)