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James Norton as Andrey Bolkonskiy, War and peace, 2016 source

Happy Birthday Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky!

Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)

Work: Allegretto moderato from String Sextet in D minor “Souvenir de Florence” (1890)

Performer: Rostislav Dubinsky, Yaroslav Alexandrov, Dmitri Shebalin, Valentin Berlinsky, Genrikh Talalyan, Mstislav Rostropovich

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What’s Up for September 2016

We won’t have a solar eclipse until Aug. 21, 2017, but observers in central Africa will see an annular eclipse, where the moon covers most but not all of the sun, on Sept. 1. Observers always need to use safe solar eclipse glasses or filters on telescopes, binoculars and cameras.

Also this month, there are two minor meteor showers, both with about 5 swift and bright meteors per hour at their peak, which will be near dawn. The first is the Aurigid shower on Sept. 1. The new moon on the first means the sky will be nice and dark for the Aurigids. 

The second shower is the Epsilon Perseids on Sept. 9. The first quarter moon sets on the 9th at midnight, just in time for the best viewing of the Perseids.

There are many nice pair-ups between the moon and planets this month. You can see the moon between Venus and Jupiter on Sept. 2, and above Venus on the 3rd, right after sunset low on the West-Southwest horizon. On the 15th the nearly full moon pairs up with Neptune, two weeks after its opposition, when the 8th planet is closest to Earth in its orbit around the sun.

Watch the full September “What’s Up” video for more: 

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Hi-Res stills for “War and Peace”. More pictures here. 

 Today was a day of “War and peace” ❤️❤️❤️