Meteor Showers 2012
A calendar of all the major meteor showers taking place in 2012 that I drew up.
Of course, this isn’t all of the meteor events this year. Only the ones with the best chance of being visible. I chose only events with a Zenith Hourly Rate (ZHR, the number of peak events per hour) above 10. You should also consider the moon phase for that date, which I did not include.
How to use this:
- The date on the left is the early morning after midnight on the day it will peak (so “October 7” is between midnight and sunrise on the morning of the 7th).
- The constellation represents the point in the sky that the shower will “originate” from.
- Choose someplace dark, away from city lights, and bring a blanket and a friend.
- Enjoy.
To calculate the sunrise/sunset for your area on a specific date, go here. Many more details about each event can be found in this summary from EarthSky. Some events will favor the North or South Hemispheres, but such is life.
Feel free to distribute freely!
Hancock director, Peter Berg, has confirmed that a sequel is in the works. Will Smith will reprise his role as alcoholic superhero, John Hancock.
YESSS!!!
Just a few hours ago the feds took down MegaUpload on piracy charges, and now UniversalMusic.com, RIAA.org, MPAA.org, and Justice.gov have all gone down. Someone who goes by Anonymous is claiming responsibility. He also stated that there is more to come in the way of DDOS attacks and threats toward the federal government, SOPA supporters, and other organizations that support the copyright infringement lawsuits.
What hes doing is wrong and right
..Everything is silent.. - ITAMR000142 by Giovanni Piccinini on Flickr.
I want to go here and just stare at the water for hours
Newly restored scans of Hasselblad photos shot on Gemini’s 1965-1966 missions.
These galleries include outtakes, underexposures, overexposures, double exposures, light leaks, etc. Even astronauts make photo mistakes.
Read all about the scans.
Newly Restored Hasselblad Scans from Gemini’s Space Missions
Photos: NASA/JSC/Arizona State University; via BoingBoing
This isn’t some tan girl covered in makeup with perfectly straight hair and a perfect smile. This is a girl with Pfeiffer Syndrome, who has had bangs her whole life to hide her forehead and struggles everyday to be okay with looking this way. She’s had several surgeries and will have a couple more. she can’t wear makeup much, her eyes are sensitive. Her jaw is misaligned. Her forehead is too thick and has to be shaven down. Her cheekdowns have to be moved forward by surgery. when she was four she had something called a ‘halo’ which was a metal circle screwed into her skull and jaw.
though she fought through it medically, she struggles everyday with the emotional sideeffects. she doesn’t look like her family or her friends. she may never look normal. she has depression and eating issues because of what she has had to accept about herself. she has done awful things to be pretty.
nobody ever sees her without makeup or without bangs.
until now.
She, is me.
and if I make your blog ugly, than don’t reblog this. but if you can be one of the few people in my life who I know are fully comfortable with it, than reblog this so people know.
you are beautiful. even if you don’t realize it, you are. everyone is,
She’s beautiful, <3






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