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Welcome to another great year at Pope High School. You will find the information on the pages to the left very helpful throughout the year. Please visit them frequently for updates on assignments and class activities.
Cool stuff coming up in Astronomy
Sky Watch: The January 2012 Sky
An eventful sky year begins with brilliant Jupiter high up on the Aries-Pisces border at nightfall. Earth arrives at perihelion on the evening of the 4th.
Dazzling Venus opens its amazing year already conspicuously 20 degrees high in the west at nightfall. It sits next to faint-blue Neptune on the 11th-12th. Mars, in Leo and rapidly brightening (it will double in the course of the month), rises just after 10:00 P.M. and is nicely high at midnight. Saturn, in Virgo, rises at 1:30 A.M.
The Moon hovers above Jupiter on the 2nd and is then near Saturn on the 16th, to the right of Venus on the 25th, above Venus on the 26th, and to the right of Jupiter on the 29th.
Eclipse Dates for 2012
May 20, 2012: Annular eclipse of the Sun This rare eclipse will be partially visible from all but eastern North America. For most western locations, the eclipse will begin between 5:00 P.M. and 6:00 P.M. PDT. In Alaska and parts of northern Canada, the eclipse will start an hour earlier and end 2 to 3 hours later (or will be interrupted by sunset). In San Francisco, for example, the eclipse will begin at 5:16 P.M. PDT, reach its maximum at 6:33 P.M., and end at 7:30 P.M., with the Sun very low on the horizon.
June 3-4, 2012: Partial eclipse of the Moon In North America, this will be fully visible only from western Alaska; Hawaiians will also have a view. The Moon will enter the penumbra at 10:47 P.M. HAST on June 3, reach a maximum at 1:03 A.M. on June 4, and then leave the penumbra at 3:20 A.M. The eclipse will be partially visible from most of central and western parts of North America; observers will be able to see both a penumbral and umbral eclipse. The Moon will enter the penumbra at 1:47 A.M. PDT on June 4 and then enter the umbra at 2:59 A.M. PDT. However, the Moon will set before completion of the eclipse. Only a penumbral eclipse will be visible from the Northeast, starting at 4:47 A.M. EDT on June 4, before the Moon sets.
November 13-14, 2012: Total eclipse of the Sun This eclipse will not be visible from North America. It will be visible only from Australia, Polynesia, the South Pacific Ocean, southern South America, and Antarctica.
November 28, 2012: Penumbral eclipse of the Moon This eclipse will be fully visible only from Alaska and western parts of Hawaii. The Moon will enter the penumbra at 3:13 A.M. AKST, reach a maximum at 5:33 A.M., and exit the penumbra at 7:53 A.M. In central and western North America, the eclipse will begin at 4:13 A.M. PST, but the Moon will set before the eclipse concludes. No eclipse will be visible from eastern North America.
| Seasons of 2012: | |
|---|---|
| SPRING EQUINOX | March 20, 1:14 A.M. EDT |
| SUMMER SOLSTICE | June 20, 7:09 P.M. EDT |
| FALL EQUINOX | September 22, 10:49 A.M. EDT |
| WINTER SOLSTICE | December 21, 6:12 A.M. EST |
