If you like watching the skies, October will be a big month with plenty of opportunities to dust off the binoculars and telescopes - there are planets, meteor showers, a partial eclipse and a Hunter's Moon in the schedule for stargazers.
There are plenty of potential cosmic events coming up this October. Photo: AP/Ariel Schalit
They are the car parks at Carding Mill Valley, Cross Dyke, Pole Cottage and the Shooting Box. All four sites have the darkest Milky Way Class rating, meaning that the skies are dark enough to see the Milky Way with the naked eye. So your best chance will be within a week or so of a"greatest elongation" like the one due on October 8, the point at which the planet is farthest from the Sun in the morning sky. These periods occur twice every 116 days or so.Draconid meteor shower, October 8/9
October's Full Moon, which should be visible on October 9, is known as the Hunter's Moon, and sometimes the Blood Moon or Sanguine Moon. Orionids are named after Orion, because the meteors seem to emerge or radiate from the same area in the sky as the constellation.This will be the second partial solar eclipse of the year. The moon will pass in front of part of the sun's disc, appearing to partially block it out.
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