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ᜌᜓᜃᜒ (Yuki)
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Last night between 9:30 and 10:00 in the evening, we were staring at the starry skies in front of SM Mall of Asia while reminiscing the things that happened this year 2009 and the 2000 decade. During our conversation, I noticed a big and bright red star at first I thought that it was some red light from a communication tower or antennæ.

Inspecting closer (my eyes have zooming capabilities :p ) I noticed that it wasn’t what I thought it was and it wasn’t twinkling either. I got excited because I knew then that I was looking at humanity’s dream - Planet Mars!

And it is my personal dream as well to see Planet Mars this big and bright, in my lifetime of course. If you still remember your Astronomy lessons, Planet Earth and Planet Mars have an oblong or elliptical orbit. Secondly, Mars orbit is more elongated than our own planet.

Third, each planet’s orbit rotate through space over thousands of years, it makes the distance between the two planets to never exactly repeat again. This makes it rare for the two planets to see each other as close as possible.

The closest ever that Earth and Mars met was back in August of 2003 which hasn’t occurred for nearly 60,000 years! Unfortunately, it wasn’t as beautiful like yesterday, and will be tonight.

Aodhan has this to say, “This is the best ever I’ve seen of it. It’s a ruby!” This was after I micro-blogged about Mars last night, he added, “Seen it maybe over 5 of its showings, this one is downright awesome.” (read: Plurk Thread)

I agree, Planet Mars is a beautiful ruby gem in the night sky today and you shouldn’t missed it at all! So without further ado here are the details you need to know.

According to Stellarium, Mars tonight will reach -0.53 magnitude. To give you an idea how bright it is, the brightest star in Earth’s night sky - Sirius (part of the constellation Canis Major) will be at magnitude -1.45 tonight. So yes, Mars will be that bright you really can not miss it!

How to spot Planet Mars:

  • Go out tonight at around 9:30 or 10:30 in the evening and look for the almost Full Moon
  • Once you found Moon, look Eastward until you see a bright red "star"
  • If instead you saw a bright blue star, that is Sirius, continue searching until you see a bright red "star". Here's a tip: Planets do not twinkle ;)

That is Planet Mars, the Planet that has fascinated humanity for æons and filled our dreams with establishing a human civilization on the red planet (or nightmares of an unfriendly Martian race). Planet Mars that many ancients attributed as an omen of an upcoming war, whose name itself came from the god of war “Mars”.

Here are some screenshots I took from the Astronomy Free/Libre Open-Source Software Stellarium. Note: These screenshots assume that you are facing South which puts East to your left (where you will find Mars).

Click to enlarge (will open in a new window/tab).

The next one is Sirius “the Dog Star”, the brightest star in the night sky.

Happy New Year 2010 to everyone!!


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ᜌᜓᜃᜒ (Yuki ・ 雪亮)이것이 망각의 끝이 아니라면 내 인생이 바로 오늘 끝날 듯 매일 살 것이다.

YOOki (柳 紀 ・ 유 기) 연대기

YOOki (柳 紀 ・ 유 기) 연대기ᜌᜓᜃᜒ (Yuki ・ 雪亮) 의 캐주얼 및 개인 블로그로의 복귀입니다. “YOOki"라는 이름은 YourOnly.One 의 두문자어와 내 별명 ᜌᜓᜃᜒ (Yuki ・ 雪亮) 의 매시업입니다.

흥미롭게도 중국 전설에 따르면 「柳」(YOO)는 고대 중국의 성입니다.이 성의 조상은 Yu Shun이라는 고대 현인과 밀접한 관련이 있습니다. 한국에서는 「유 (YOO)“혈통 흔적 하, 한, 조선 왕조에 유, 유 성의 소유자는 자선과 근면으로 명성을 얻었습니다. 1

또한 우아하거나 가느 다란 것을 의미하는 “버들 나무"또는 “버들 나무"의 단어이기도합니다. 그리고 모든 사람에게 지속적인 영양과 자원을 제공하는 수역 근처에서 자라는 나무. 그것은 또한 존재, 기름 (기음 (?)), 그리고 단순히 “U”(당신)를 의미 할 수 있습니다.

한자 「紀」(ki) 문자는 기록, 훈련, 질서 제공을 의미합니다. 한글에 해당하는 「기」(기기)는 에너지, 정신, 기치, 기간을 의미합니다. 동명사 또는 부정사를 만드는 데 사용되는 접미사이기도합니다.

“柳 紀"과 “유 기"가 “YOOki"의 중국어와 한국어로 무슨 뜻인지 아시겠습니까?


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