China News Agency, Nanjing, June 2nd (Yang Yanci) The Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences released the performances of the June "Sky Elephant Theater" on June 2: Mercury East, the penumbral eclipse, the June meteor shower in Lyra, and the solar eclipse "Blockbuster" will be released in turns. Among them, the wonderful Phnom Penh solar eclipse is the most anticipated astronomical phenomenon in 2020.
At the beginning of the month, the low-key Mercury will be the first to shine in Tianyu, opening this month's celestial covenant. Mercury is about to usher in the second east long distance this year, when the public can find the figure of Mercury in the low altitude of the northwest after sunset.
Behind the curtain of Mercury, Mars and Neptune will "hold hands" in Tianyu. On June 12, "Mars and Neptune" joined the sky party to jointly perform "Starry Sky Whisper".
When the planet shines, romantic meteor showers also come to "get together." On June 16, the Lyra meteor shower struck colorfully. It is predicted that this meteor shower has a ZHR (maximum zenith flow per hour) of about 5 and produces blue or white meteors. Although the flow is not large, the effect of the moon phase is very small, suitable for astronomy enthusiasts to observe.
Speaking of this month's most anticipated "protagonist" of the sky, it is still the moon that meets every day but is very different.
In the early morning of June 6, Tianyu will quietly have a penumbral eclipse. At that time, if the weather is fine, the public will find that the moon will have a process from bright to dark, and then recover from dark to bright.
As the most important astronomical phenomenon in 2020, the highly anticipated solar eclipse will shock the debut on June 21.
The biggest feature of this eclipse is that the eclipse (the ratio of the moon covering the diameter of the sun) has reached 0.994, which is very close to the total eclipse, so some people speculate that this eclipse can see the corona. Such a solar eclipse is also called "Phnom Penh eclipse".
It is predicted that this eclipse will begin in northern Congo, pass through South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, the Red Sea, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Pakistan, India, China, etc., and end in the western North Pacific.
In China, the ring-shaped eclipse belt of the solar eclipse passes through central Tibet, central Sichuan, northern Guizhou, central Hunan, southwestern Jiangxi, southern Fujian, and central Taiwan. Partial solar eclipses can be seen in other areas of China outside the circumlunar zone. (Finish)