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 me miss it also, plus IT didn't land in my garden money to be made on selling remnants 
No fireballs, but I did get to see the ISS right at sunset at 19:02 local time on Saturday night! It caught the last dying rays right between Jupiter and Venus and was visible for about 45 seconds. Way cool.  
Orange, with a green tail? In may have been in-falling satellite debris. The most brilliantly colored fireball I ever saw was that, the fireball beginning with a strongly blue flare as the titanium heat shield burned off, followed by a green flare, as the copper circuitry boiled away, and finally a red-orange flare as the remainder of the object continued to burn on re-entry.
http://www.clickgreen.org.uk/news/n...w-as-it-blazes-across-uk-skies.html video http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...0/Fireball-lights-up-night-sky.html
Some lovely new sun portraits, courtesy of Discover: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/b...2012/03/15/the-suns-angry-red-spot/ Bonus: Extremely entertaining comments section provided by serious but amiable astronomy geeks!
A87749068 April's BATS, there's a good meteor shower coming up teamed with a very new moon, so should be a great count! 
Exceptionally dramatic sunspot! It may be related to the March 6 coronal mass ejection that produced exceptionally bright night skies and unusual meteorological phenomena like rainbows and rings around the moon early in March. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/News030712-X5-4.html Wouldn't want to mistake the upcoming transit of the sun by Venus, June 5 -6 2012 for a sunspot, last chance to see one until 2117. http://astro.ukho.gov.uk/nao/transit/V_2012/index.html Other special solar events coming up, an annular solar eclipse, May 20, 2012. I'm a little too far south to see it in totality, but will be able to see a dramatic partial, if nothing else. http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoog...Egoogle2001/SE2012May20Agoogle.html The Old Farmers Almanac recommends a number 14 or higher welding filter for viewing the sun directly. More links below. http://andrewcarnegie.tripod.com/solflyer2.htm
Everything you ever wanted to know about the transit of Venus: A9913908
a van on Venus!
Found a small typo in the age of David Peck Todd in the section on the 1882 transit. Machine error. A really first rate article. Found some notes that the upcoming transit is going to be used to help plan systems that may help in studies of the atmospheres of extra-solar planets discovered by means of the transit method, no details as yet though.
Thanks ITIWBS, I enjoyed putting that together  I have fixed the � (what I call wonky code) replaced it with a dash, which is what it should have been in the first place  I have also heard that they're going to be analysing the atmospheres of extrasolar planets, I think they already can do this for transiting worlds, it's the others detected by different methods which they need help with.
ISS Crew 30 time-lapse set to music: Walking In Air http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWz5ltE_I4c&feature=youtu.be Lots of Aurora Action!
Marvelous link, KWDave!   Sublime!
Thought that one might get a couple of thumbs up! Glad you enjoyed it.
It may take this Netscape/AOL image a minute or so to stabilize. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...ys-enceladus_n_1471365.html#s679900 Saturn PHOTO Shows Moons Tethys And Enceladus In High Resolution The image of shadows on Saturn's rings is from a slide show under the title beneath the link. Hyperlink to main article in upper left hand corner.
NASA: Pursuit of Light (SLYT): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkHc_3Zrv8s NASA still does one thing well; inspire dreamers. This is a beautiful video.
http://www.space.com/15729-solar-ec...e-may20-2012-complete-coverage.html  to those in the line of sight.
Cloudy right now, but then again, I've almost 11 hours to wait (if it's clear, a huge if, I'm located where the "ring of fire" will be visible )
did you see it?
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