Heaven this week: Early rising legs enjoy orion nebula (2024)

Friday, September 3
The gigantic planets Jupiter and Saturn float over the southern horizon in the dark tonight.

Jupiter is the lighter planet in size –2.9 and is located just northeast of the order of 2.8 Deneb Algedi.10: 30.edt.This will only appear in 4th place until 1:11 am (check your time zone if you vest for longer) when it slides out of the shadow of the planet that extends distant east to the counter.But that is not alone - it is followed by Europe, which disappears shortly afterwards.11: 42.3: 23 A.M.edt.

Size 0.3 Saturn is 17 ° west of Jupiter, in a region of the constellation without lighter stars.The brightest, size 8.5 Titan, is about.1 ′ north of Saturn tonight.

Sunrise:6.30 am in the morning.
Sunset:7:28 pm
Moonrise:2:32 am
Moonset:18:00
Moon phase:Decreasing half moon (12%)
*Times for sunrise, sunset, moon and moonlight are given in the local time of 40 ° N 90 ° W. The lighting of the moon is given in the room of the same place.

Saturday 4 September
To get up early in the weekend is not always fun, but it is perhaps worth it: this month the hours before sunrise when the Orion Hunter climbs over the horizon, hidden with one of the best sights of the northern skyIn his belt.Hanging under the three well -known stars in the belt of Orion is the soft glow of his sword, formed by the famousOrion Nebula (M42).

The mist includes more than a full degree and is approximately size 4. Binoculars and telescopes will both take off some of its functions, with larger openings that are increasingly producing interi -detail.The oldest, the flaming bright stars in the trapezoidal cluster, whose energy photons are still forming today.

Sunrise:6:31 am
Sunset:7:26 pm
Moonrise:3:36 am
Moonset:6:38 pm
Moon phase:Decreasing crescent (6%)

Sunday 5 September
Venus passes 1.7 ° to the north of Spica on.2 o'clock in the morning, both at that time are under the horizon.5 ° northeast of Spica, whose clear size 1 -glow has to come out quickly in the direction of the Donkereheaven.Venus, in size –4, surpasses Long Star.Only 3 ° above the horizon 30 minutes after sunset and about.15 ° east of Venus.

But this is not the only planetary show tonight.Observators also want to go back to a telescope to Jupiter, where - within 30 minutes of sunset in the midwest, AT.08: 54.20: 59 hours at the Big Moon, the planet also slid and shares it for only one minute until Europe untilThese have ended transit. 9: 00.edt.

Keep looking and you can see the large shadow cross of Ganymede on Jovian cloud tops at. 10:5 am, while the moon itself is only halfway through the counter.12: 30 A.M.Dt the 6th (late at the 5th for the rest of the United States) And the shade disappears slightly less than two hours later.

Sunrise:6:32 am
Sunset:7:25 pm
Moonrise:4:42 am
Moonset:7:12 pm
Moon phase:Decreasing half moon (2%)

Monday 6 September
New MoonOccurs on Op.20: 52 P.M.ED.Med lifted over a dark, moonless sky, it is the perfect evening to look for the most distant planet of our solar system, Neptunus, which will reach resistance within a week.Well placed for observation.

Neptunus is currently around.2.7 billion miles (4.3 billion kilometers) off the ground.That brings the ice giant within the reach of most observers.If you have a telescope, you may be able to distinguish the bluish color that it separates from nearby field stars.

To find Neptunus, look for the 4th-Magnitude Phi (φ) Aquarii, which is South-Southwest of the Circlet in the fish.HIP 116266, HIP 116106 and HIP 115953) ca.6.5 ° as south of the circle.

Sunrise:6:33 am
Sunset:7:23 pm
Moonrise:5:52 am
Moonset:7:41 pm
Moon phase:Of

Tuesday 7 September
The dark, moon-free air this week means that it is time to enjoy some weaker sights of the solar system, including Comet 67p/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, whose weak, 13. Magnitude glow a scope of 10 inches or more requires.Currently stands for the Western Taurus and is early this morning in the air in the hours for sunrise.Arrived at 67p, there the comet is in detail for two years.

You can find 67p 6 ° on the right north of Omicron (ο) Tauri and 10.5 ° southwest of the amazing Pleiades -Star Close (M45), which in itself is a light and paying target for people with binocular orSmall telescopes.100 million years old and visible to the naked eye as a small dip -shaped pattern around 14 ° northwest of Light Aldebaran, Bull's Eye.Keen-Eyed observers or experienced astrophotographers may seem like part of the Nevulosity about these stars.Was material back from the formation of the cluster, we now know that it is actually a local dust cloud that goes on and has nothing to do with the stars themselves.

For those who prefer to observe in the evening, 67p will get up late tonight just before 7 p.m. 10.30 p.m.And can be observed at night.

Sunrise:6:34 am
Sunset:7:22 pm
Moonrise:7:01 am
Moonset:8:08 pm
Moon phase:Crescent grow (1%)

Wednesday 8 September
The moon passes 7 ° north of Merkur when catching the inner planet with a telescope before you are set, you can see that it is a diameter of 6 ″ and 65 percent is switched on.

Focus on the moon with your reach to enjoy the sight of sunrise over Lunar East.The Terminator - the line that shares light and dark - is lying.

Sunrise:6:34 am
Sunset:7:20 PM
Moonrise:8:12 am
Moonset:8:35 pm
Moon phase:Crescent grow (4%)

Thursday 9 September
Movement to the east over heaven passes the moon 4 ° north of Venus and 11 percent is switched on, while Venus the light is slightly to the order - 4.1.″.

When Venus and Moon sink in the west, you look higher on the horizon to find the big constellationOphiuchus de Snake Development.NGC 6384. Try to find it tonight by dropping 5.5 ° south of Rasalhage, the size of the Constellation 2 Alpha Star.Altternat] Ophiuchi).These fantastic spiral -shaped lights size 10.4 so it needs a larger scope (8 inch or so) to really enjoy many details.

Sunrise:6:35 am
Sunset:7:18 pm
Moonrise:9:23 am
Moonset:9:03 pm
Moon phase:Crescent grow (9%)

Friday 10. September
Asteroid (2) Pallas reaches opposition at the constellation of the constellation fish.Visible all night in about 9. Size, large binoculars or a small telescope shows the wealthy world, the third largest asteroid and contains approximately.7 percent of the total mass in the main belt.Pallas is currently 4 ° southwest of size 3.7 gamma (γ) piscium, a gigantic star of yellow-orange as light as 61 sunshine.Stars in the vicinity of the sun - the speed due to the air of approximately 145 km in the second and will ultimately move enough to stretch the familiar shape of this constellation noticeably.

Sunrise:6:36 am
Sunset:7:17 pm
Moonrise:10:36 am
Moonset:9:33 pm
Moon phase:Crescent grow (17%)