Our Free Book: 101 Astronomical Events in 2017

Let’s forget all about 2016, and instead look forward to the amazing 2017 we all know we’re going to have. And to help you celebrate this amazing year in space, we’re pleased to publish an entire book on what you can observe in the upcoming year: 101 Astronomical Events in 2017.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

Our Free Book: 101 Astronomical Events in 2017

Let’s forget all about 2016, and instead look forward to the amazing 2017 we all know we’re going to have. And to help you celebrate this amazing year in space, we’re pleased to publish an entire book on what you can observe in the upcoming year: 101 Astronomical Events in 2017.

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Not too bad. I was hoping there wasn’t too much rubbish like “Jupiter moves through Orion”. Or “the meteor shower that happens every year is happening again”. They choose as topics:

Asteroid occultations:​ Good
Close conjunctions: Pretty useless
Comets:​ Good
Double shadow transits of Jupiter’s moons: ​Ho hum
Eclipses: ​Yeah yeah
Meteor showers: ​I suppose they had to have it
Occultations of bright stars: Good. Useful
Oppositions and greatest elongations:​ Boring
Occultations of planets:​ Mmm
Planets that occult stars, asteroids:​ None
Weirdness:​ Not too much, please