TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Philosophy astronomy the interesting thing in november 2024 is water Taurid meteor and Leonid. However, in some parts of Indonesia the time coincides with the rainy season. “It has been difficult to watch meteor showers,” said Avivah Yamani, an astronomy activist from Langit Selatan Bandung community, Saturday 2 November 2024.
According to Avivah, the Northern Taurid meteor shower that appears from the constellation Taurus can be seen from October 13th to December 2nd. However, the peak time for a meteor shower is November 12. “The number is about five meteors per hour at a speed of 29 kilometers per hour,” he said.
The constellation Taurus is in the northeast, rising after sunset at 18.25 WIB until dawn. The combination of the North and South Taurid meteor showers that take place from late October to early November can look interesting with the presence of meteors that look like fireballs.
At the same time, the annual record for the Leonid meteor shower starts from November 3 to December 2, 2024. The maximum intensity, said Avivah, is between November 17 – 18, 2024. Later it will be visible in appear from the constellation Leo in the northeast – east and at its peak it can shoot up to ten meteors per hour at a speed of about 71 kilometers per second.
Water Leonid meteor which comes from the dust left over from comet Tempel-Tuttle, reach 100 meteors per hour. However, the time is now only in 2031 and 2064. Then it is also possible that the Leonid meteor storm will occur in 2099. “The number of visible meteors could be very large, reaching more than a thousand meteors an hour,” said Ordinary.
In addition, in the same direction of the sky, that is the northeast, there is also a Monocerotid meteor shower from November 15 – 25 that will reach its peak on November 21. Apparently emerging from the constellation Canis Minor, at its peak it can shoot five meteors per hour from 21.30 WIB when it rises to dawn.
Notice
From the Langit Selatan page, another astronomical phenomenon on November 9 is the first small moon. Perbani is a phase of the moon when the Sun, Earth and Moon form a right angle, that is 90 degrees.
On November 14, the moon reached its closest distance to the earth or perigee of 360,109 kilometers. Full moon on November 16th, then zero end on November 23rd. Then the moon will move away from the earth until the apogee point on November 26 at a distance of 405,134 kilometers.
At the same time, several coordinates or positions of the Moon and the planets seem to be close to observations of the Earth, namely the Moon and the planet Venus on November 5 at 18.30 WIT, the Moon and Saturn on November 11 at 19.30 WIT, the Moon and Jupiter on November 17 at 19.22 WIT, and the Moon near Mars near midnight on November 20.
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2024-11-02 23:18:00
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