Phenomena for February 2010

Selected astronomical phenomena:

Times are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

News in February 2010

Several updates and new contents are being deployed this month:

• A new Italian translation. Only part of the site has been translated, but most of the ephemerides are now available in that language.
• Improvements to the Portuguese translation.
• New activity models for some meteor showers, and a reclassification that involved taking several showers out of the yearly calendar, and also removing a couple ones from the whole system.
• New revisions are available for some PDF documents in the documentation area.
• Small aesthetic improvements.

Meanwhile, are coming to an end some projects that could be used to produce new ephemerides and functionalities. In planning the new contents, the requests from the users of the site have been taken into account.

Meteor shower prediction for tonight

Ephemerides for meteor radiants active at 0h UTC of February 9, 2010:

Right ascension and declination are referred to ICRS. Vg is the geocentric velocity in km/s, and ZHR is the Zenith Hourly Rate. Read the explanation for additional information. Percentage of illuminated Moon at 0h TT is 22%.