Southern California Desert Video Astronomers
Our Mission.............................
" To share our abilities with astronomy in order to preserve dark starry night skies and a vibrant healthy environment in the California Desert and everywhere else on our Planet for future generations! "
SCDVA, moving the line for dark skies and environmental awareness.
The World's First & Only Live Astronomy Theater.
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Check out the night sky as the Summer Triangle and Cygnus make their appearance.
For you early risers, check out the views in the southwest as the sun rises in the east.
Looking East just before sunrise, Venus, the morning star disappears as the dawn breaks.
Clear Sky Chart for The Joshua Tree Astronomy Arts Theater
January moon, February moon, March moon, April moon, May moon, June moon, July moon, August moon, September moon, October moon, November moon, December Moon
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San Bernardino County
IDA International Dark Sky Association
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MAY SKIES
The Eta Aquarid meteor shower should be at its peak in the wee hours of Monday morning. With the new moon on the 4th the skies should be nice and dark with possibly a few dozen meteors per hour. The meteors appear to originate from Eta Aquarii, one of the brighter stars in the constellation Aquarius. Best viewing time will be in the predawn hours. Like with most meteor showers, you can see a fair number of meteors for a few nights before and after the peak.
They will be passing within 3°12' of each other and will become visible around 7:50 pm PDT above the western horizon setting about 3 hours after the sun sets.
The month of May was named after the Greek goddess, Maia who is also identified with the Roman goddess of fertility, Bona Dea.
Could this be the reason for having Mothers Day in May?
MAIA was the eldest of the Pleiades, the seven nymphs of the constellation Pleiades. She was a shy goddess who dwelt alone in a cave near the peaks of Mount Kyllene (Cyllene) in Arkadia where she secretly gave birth to the god Hermes, her son by Zeus.
Did you know.....
When you think of a Blue Moon, it is thought it refers to any full moon that is the second full moon to fall within a single calendar month. This
originally seems to have stemmed from a misprint in Sky & Telescope magazine in March 1946.
According to Earth-Sky This Blue Moon is because "usually, only three fall within any each of the Earth's season which last an average of three months. A sequence of three traditional names are given in turn to these three full moons. However, occasionally, a fourth full moon can fall within a single season.
This happens because full moons recur every 29.53 days, and so the Moon's phases cycle on average 12.37 times each year, or 3.11 times each season. As a result, there will be four full moons within a season once every 2.7 years.
When this happens, there are only three traditional names to go between four full moons, and so the third of them is called a blue moon instead."
It is also known as the Full Flower Moon According to the Old Farmers Almanac the Native American named the Full May Moon, The Flower Moon. "Flowers spring forth in abundance this month. Some Algonquin tribes knew this full Moon as the Corn Planting Moon or the Milk Moon."
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Last updated May 3, 2019