In FLorida, when is Orion visible in the sky?
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Greetings,\n\nYou should still be able to see Orion, but you may have to content with less than dark skies.\n\nGo out as soon as you begin to see stars and look south and between 45 degrees and 90 degrees up.  Find the three belt stars and go from there.\n\nTo determine how far up is 45 degrees:\n\nHold your fist at arms length towards the sky.  The amount of sky your fist covers is about 10 degrees, regardless of the length of your arm or size of your fist.\n\nFollow this link to the Sky and Telescope magazine website and you can plug in your city name, etc.  A customized interactive star chart will help guide you.\n\nhttp://skyandtelescope.com/observing/skychart/article_1220_1.asp#\n\n-matt
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Anyplace not cloudy and that does not have too many bright lights will do. Just look anywhere in the sky. The meteors can appear anywhere in the sky. Look after midnight though, because the radiant won't rise until then. The later at night you look, the better. 4:00 AM would be the best time to look.\n\nThe predictions are not that good this year. A few years ago I saw 50 bright ones per hour. This year they are predicting 10 or 15 per hour, and maybe not bright ones either. Also, the peak time is before the radiant rises in the US, so Europe will see the best show. If the predictions are correct.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion
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Midnight 'till about 2a ET.  Find a spot where there are no lights in your eyes and stare at the sky.  I hope you see some shooting stars.  Make a wish if you do...
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Greetings,\n\nIt was probably Sirius the Dog Star.  One of the closer stars to us and when it twinkles it appears red, blue, green, and is really big for a star.\n\nIt was NOT a planet, as planets don't twinkle.  Jupiter is bright, but it's not very high up in the sky at 8:00 pm.  Venus is currently only up in the morning.  Saturn is a dim yellowish star in Gemini.  Mars is a dim orange star between Taurus and the Pleides.\n\nSo to sum up, it was most likely Sirius.\n\nYou can use the link provided for a interactive star chart that is easy to read and use.  Simply plug in your city and state and the time of day/night you want to see and most of the visible stars will show up along with the planets, comets, and a few other deep space objects.\n\n-matt
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March 20 2015\n\nA total eclipse will be visible in the vicinity of the British Isles in the morning; it will be visible from the Faroes, but not from the UK. The path crosses between Scotland and Iceland, over the Faroe islands, and into the Arctic. A 90% partial eclipse will be seen in north-west Scotland.
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march 29, 2006\nhttp://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/2006/
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the flight path would start off heading northeast, hours later it would be due east, then a bit to the southeast over europe (to follow the arc of the great circle between the two cities).  from an altitude of 35,000 to 40,000 feet, you would be able to see stars that are typically below the horizon at those latitudes.  sitting on the right side of the plane, you would be looking south.  for the beginning of the trip, you would be looking at the winter stars, including sirius (the brigthest star in the sky), rigel and betelgeuse (in orion), and procyon.  saturn will also be visible in this direction and will not be quite as bright as sirius.\n\nmars is not very bright at this time -- definitely no brighter than surrounding bright stars.  after a local time of 10pm, jupiter will rise in the east, so by a local time of 1am, it would be a very bright object in the southern sky and visible out your window.\n\nvenus is only visible in the morning sky now, so you would only see it as you were approaching europe.  it can be either an evening star or a morning star, but never both at the same time.  venus is never visible at or near local midnight.\n\nto get the local time, you would have to know what timezone you were in at each point in your flight and adjust from u.s. central time as you fly.
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Watch the stars outside if it's a clear night
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Look at the website   http://www.heavens-above.com/  \n\nPlug in your location info (bookmark it) and you'll get all the local astronomical information you need.
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Jupiter is a wonderful planet to observe. Right now it is in the constellation of Libra.\n\nAssuming you are near Miami Jupiter rises about 2 in the morning. You can see it low and rising in the Southeast until about 6 when the sky starts to get bright.\n\nCheck the interactive chart below. Jupiter is an olive-drab circle with a curly 4 shape on it. Just set the time to London Time, so 6 in the morning Florida time would be 11:00:00 London Time.\n\nEnjoy!
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Good.  It's always fun seeing bright meteors (meteors are the streak you see in the sky;  a meteorite is the term used for such an object that survives it's plunge into the atmosphere and strikes the ground; a meteoroid is the same object still in open space).  Quite likely what you saw was one of the Orionids, especially if it seemed to eminate from the constellation Orion.  Those particular meteors are very fast and can be very bright.  The Orionids were pretty spectacular this year...I saw 5 of them in about 10 minutes during the peak.
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That would be comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann starting about the end of April and until about June 15th.  Uncertain how bright (as with most comets) will become, but it will be relatively close to earth at 11 million miles.  It should be visible as it travels through the constellation of Hercules and glide past the star Vega on its journey.  On May 11, it  will be in the constellation Cynus the Swan (aka the Northern Cross).  It will continue through Pegasus and Pisces, and dim from view in Cetus in mid June.
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when u see a clear sky
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Maybe. You need clear skies of course, and you need to look after midnight. Before midnight the radiant is below the horizon. Basically that means the meteors are hitting the other side of the Earth.
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Sounds like you may be looking at Sirius, the brightest star in the  sky. It is a blue star but because of the refraction of the Earth's atmosphere appears to flash red every few seconds. It doesn't matter where you  are. It's visible this time of year anywhere in the northern hemisphere. BTW Sirius is called the dog star because it is part of the constellation Canis Major, the big dog. Canis Major looks just like a stick drawing of a dog and Sirius is its eye.
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I'm in Oklahoma and will be going out to see them.  The key is, will the constellation Leo be visible at 10:45?  If it is then we'll get to see the peak (about 2 per minute according to some articles)!  If it's not up in time, we should still get a show.