The girl was later found safe at a home in unincorporated El Cajon, authorities said. EDT is Eastern Daylight Time in North America. Venus will rise just before 4 am local time, per In the Sky, giving you almost three hours of viewing before the sun rises. NASA Explains Source of Bright Light in San Diego Skies NASA officials confirmed it was a bright meteor that entered the atmosphere just south of … Visible around sunrise and sunset only. TRIPS & TOURS If you're lucky, you might even catch a late fireball from the Northern Taurids. Restaurant workers out of jobs again as virus surges anew, Police identify 2 young men killed in La Jolla crash, $100B year propels Elon Musk past Bill Gates to become the world’s 2nd wealthiest person, Keep the mask: A vaccine won’t end the US crisis right away, Biden becomes first presidential candidate to get 80 million votes. The data comes from Environment Canada's Canada's Wildfire Smoke Prediction System. It sounds appealing, but Mercury just doesn't get that high in the sky ever, given its placement between Earth and the sun. That will, however, take place while the sun is still up (even though it feels like it gets dark at noon), and Venus is only visible in the morning right now. You'll find the duo in the sky after sunset and hanging together until just after 3 am, starting in the south and moving westward throughout the night. Allan needs to show his boss that Conditions are ideal for the Leonid meteor shower. Above average transparency is necessary for good observation of low contrast objects like galaxies and nebulae. When the forecast is predicting more than 36 hours into the future, the mostly-clear accuracy Socially distant activities are recommended, and with increased frequency, as winter comes barreling toward us, those activities can be hard to come by. An image of Mars taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. (NASA) So your actual limiting magnitude will often The colors of the blocks are the colors from CMC's forecast maps for that hour. Note also that you may observe worse seeing though your telescope than what a perfect seeing forecast would predict. It's because seeing is not very related to the Canada's Wildfire Smoke Prediction System. It doesn't consider light pollution, dust, clouds, snow cover or the observer's visual acuity. That is what happened Wednesday night — at least, we think. © 1998 - 2020 Nexstar Inc. | All Rights Reserved. On Dec. 21, the date of the December solstice, Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, and ringed Saturn, the second-largest, will line up perfectly to look like a double planet in the night sky. Humidity variations can indicate the likelihood of optics and eyepieces dewing. Restaurant workers out of jobs again as virus surges anew, Police identify 2 young men killed in La Jolla crash, $100B year propels Elon Musk past Bill Gates to become the world’s 2nd wealthiest person, Keep the mask: A vaccine won’t end the US crisis right away, Biden becomes first presidential candidate to get 80 million votes. mostly-clear forecasts (cloud<25%) have been right 80% of the time. As has been the case monthly since late summer, you're going to get a night in November where Saturn, Jupiter, and the moon all come together in the night sky. Others simply wanted to know, “What the heck was that?”, Space debris re-entry caught on AllSky6 camera over SoCal last night – more info here: https://t.co/DFLp4Yconc pic.twitter.com/ulZZQJNjyR, — AMSMETEORS (@amsmeteors) January 30, 2020. According to a leading NASA researcher — and other experts weighing in on Twitter — the light was a fireball produced when a meteor entered Earth’s atmosphere. If you find this clear sky chart, or CMC maps linked by the colored blocks, So, I (Attilla Danko) wrote a script to generate the images like the one above the blocks on the chart are in local time. By Garry Beckstrom. You'll have to go out early in the evening if you want to catch them moving across the black dome overhead. The cold is creeping across the country a little faster than most of us would like. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. The Labor Department's report Wednesday said that jobless claims climbed from 748,000 the week before. Thursday, October 1 evening—Mercury at Greatest Eastern Elongation. The time on the CMC map might look odd because it's in GMT, while CMC's text page explaining this forecast is isn't much wind. Please feel free to tell sponsors that they're cool. Mostly-cloudy forecasts (cloud>75%) have been In the western sky on the … An Instagram user shared video he took from downtown around 10:30 p.m. Also, when the cloud forecast is opaque and the humidity forecast is 95%, rain is likely: a good time to cover the telescopes. and the surroundings out to about 10 miles. Cloud Cover: Overcast : 90% covered : 80% covered ... is not a weather forecast. It's always an option. be different. Tonight's Sky in San Diego, Nov 22 – Nov 23, 2020 (7 planets visible) Mercury rise and set in San Diego Fairly close to the Sun. It's worth checking a few of the full maps before It is based on Ben Sugerman's Limiting Magnitude Here 'transparency' means just what astronomers mean It'll be shining relatively bright, at magnitude -0.6, according to In the Sky. Thanks to anyone thinking of sponsoring this page. FOX 5 received dozens of messages and calls from viewers who spotted the light and wanted to share video or photos. and planetary nebulae are quite observable in below average transparency. Venus and the moon will be having a conjunction on the evening of November 12. You'll be able to see it at about the same height each morning from November 10 to November 13. But dewing is not simply correlated to relative humidity. The data comes from a forecast model developed by Allan Rahill of the The maximum eclipse takes place at 4:44 am EST. They shot up to 6.9 million during March before dropping, yet they remain historically high more than eight months later, with many businesses unable to fully reopen. ALPINE, Calif. -- A 10-year-old girl who went missing from her home in Alpine was found safe Wednesday morning, authorities said. BATON ROUGE, La. Like they did twice in October , the moon and Mars are going to have a close pass. It's the astronomer's forecast. But there are ways Large globulars and planets can be observed in poor Did you see it? Page updated by d800 at 2020-11-24 21:43:44 which is -8.0 hours from UTC.Update rank: 333. The chart shows different colors than the corresponding maps because the maps use white to mean "no smoke" but the cloud and transparency forecasts use white to mean "opaque sky". A note about CMC's smoke forecast colors: This month, Jupiter surpassed Mars to become the fourth-brightest object in our skies. Copyright 2020 A. Danko. which No computer model forecasts convective heating well, so consider the seeing forecasts for daytime It's calculated from the total amount of water vapor in the for the smoke line on the chart that might better represent the color of a smokey sky -- except for the highest levels which, when forecast, means people should stay indoors. Being on a hilltop or in a small valley can make the difference between no dew and dripping telescopes. Often good seeing occurs during poor transparency. Starting on the morning of November 10, Mercury will hit its highest point in the sky through its morning apparitions from October to December. The fiery little planet reaches a peak altitude of 17 degrees over the horizon at sunrise. We’ll also explore the beautiful nebulae hidden amongst the stars of Orion. Langbroek’s conclusion: “In my opinion, all the evidence points to a slow, fragmenting meteoritic fireball, rather than space debris.”, Credit to the researchers at AMS, who weren’t too proud to re-evaluate their own analysis once they were presented with more information.