The Sky this week: The Moon passes the planets (2024)

Friday 25 March
With the moon a decreasing crescent, the evening time is again too deep heaven that observes.

Tonight in the west, Ceres is visible in the dark, the best caught in a small (or larger) degree instead of binoculars - especially if you want to pull the dark spot of B19.V-shaped face of the bull the bull.In the evening, Ceres is 5 ° northern Noordoost for the order of 3.5 ain (Epsilon [ϵ] Tauri) and only 1.5 ° northwest of the 4th-Magstude Tau (τ) Tauri, northeast of Ain.

Once you have found Ceres, you will see 2.5 ° Nord -Nordvest..On the eastern edge of this region is Barnard 22. Ceres will slip away north -east evening and withdraw from this dark cut and eventually passed through a line from Ain to Elnath, the left horn of the Tyr (then the constellation is attracted tous;

Sunrise:6:55 am
Sunset:7:18 pm
Moonrise:2:56 am
Moonset:11:57 am
Moon phase:Decreasing half moon (45%)
*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 March 26
It is the dream of an astrophotographer who comes out: Comet 19p/Borrelly, now faded from the order of 10, is located south of the amazing California Nebula (NGC 1499) tonight.Yesterday evening.Time as soon as you can start at Pleiades.arkring 7.8 ° Nord is 3rd-Magnitude Atik (Zeta [ζ] Persei).

Borrelly is located 4 ° northeast of this star and the comet is only 1.5 ° southeast of the center of scattered NGC 1499. The nebula, illuminated by nearby XI (ξ) Persei in the southwest, extends approximately.145′ Long and 4 ′ wide.just nowCould see that with your naked eye.AstronomySpalstist Stephen James O'meara, by rack -mounted binoculars.Visual think this deep sky darlingWith his help.

The fog of California, however, has a low surface lighting power (thanks to the high surface) and is best caught on films (or rather CCD in your camera).

Sunrise:6:54 am
Sunset:7:19 pm
Moonrise:3:55 am
Moonset:1:04 pm
Moon phase:Decreasing crescent (34%)

Sunday March 27
The Moon starts with a multi -day series of planetary passports by sliding 4 ° south of Mars.11.00 hrs

About 14.5 ° Left (northeast) of the Moon is a trio of planets: from left to right rack Mars, Venus and Saturn (admitted Venus and Saturn form an almost vertical line in the air with lighter Venus over dampers Saturn.)

Let's start with the red planet, just under 11 ° northeast of the Crescent.on the oxidized (rusty) surface.5 ° at the top left of Mars is Venus, a light size –4.4 pine in the morning sky.

Finally, Saturn shines in the order of 0.7, approximately.2.5 ° under Venus.A telescope reveals its famous ring system, which extends over 36 ″ on transvers.

Sunrise:6:52 am
Sunset:7:20 PM
Moonrise:4:43 am
Moonset:2:16 pm
Moon phase:Decreasing half moon (23%)

Monday March 28
Turn back to the previous sky today and notice how far our moon has been moved - it is now in the southeastern Capricorn, just over 5 ° south of Saturn, which looks to the air to the right of the planet.For Venus at. 6 pm in the morning, then 4 ° south of Saturn will stay on. 8 o'clock in the morning.

In addition to the moon and planets that fly over the Capricorn in the morning sky, you see the clear star Altair in Aquila.The size 0.8 star is part of the trio of suns in the summer trick that is high on short summer evenings.Is the 12th lightest star in the air and the name has been "The Flying Eagle" in Arabic, because it anchores the constellation of the eagle.) Scuti-TypeVariable star, experiencing small changes in brightness in the time scales ranging from just under an hour to nine hours.

Sunrise:6:50 am
Sunset:7:21 pm
Moonrise:5:23 am
Moonset:3:29 pm
Moon phase:Decreasing half moon (15%)

Tuesday, 29th of March
Venus passes 2 ° north of Saturn on.

Look on the road to the south two hours before sunrise, and in the dark sky you see the constellation Scorpius on the tail low on the horizon.The most famous star of the Scorpion is his heart, the glowing red giant Antares whose brightness and color can compete with Mars can compete with Mars. Scorpius is in the direction of the rich center of our Milky Way and is filled with deep goals, including four messers-Objects: M4, M6, M7 and M80.

Let us concentrate on M4, a spherical cluster of size 5.6 in the neighborhood binoculars or some extent will cause its shine.2.5 ′ in the middle of the group.

Sunrise:6:49 am
Sunset:7:22 pm
Moonrise:5:55 am
Moonset:4:40 PM
Moon phase:Decreasing half moon (8%)

Wednesday March 30
The Moon continues its parade through the solar system and passes 4 ° south of Jupiter up.11.00 and then 4 ° south of Neptunus at

Even if you are currently unable to catch these distant planets, one hour after sunset tonight, you are thatbe able toSpot Uranus, which flows into the south, count the ram. I section 5.9 It is a binoculars, about halfway between Hamal (size 2) in Ram and Menk (size 2.5) in Cetus.The small disc appears as a small, "flat" Gray Star, without other details visible.

When you are ready to observe deep sky, turn your look north to Ursa Major.This big constellation has so much more to offer than its characteristic asterism, the great dip.Beer: M81 and M82, also known as Bode's Galaxy and Cigar Galaxy.

Let's go in increasing numeric order and staring with M81.Goal to see to some extent that appears as a weak, oval -shaped white -gray glow.

The bonus is near the M82. It was also discovered in 1774 by Bode. As weaker (size 8.4) and smaller (9 'with 4') Milky road system than his neighbor, M82 has gone through a lot.Star formationJump -start through a recent close meeting with M81.of gravity disorders.M82 is 37 ′ north of the M81 and makes the pair visible in wide fields of vision - try to collect them together by finding your telescope.

Sunrise:6:47 am
Sunset:7:23 pm
Moonrise:6:22 am
Moonset:5:50 PM
Moon phase:Decreasing crescent (3%)

Thursday 31st of March
Did you know that there are a few lions in the night sky?Through our heaven (and the plan of the solar system).This size 1.4 star is at the end of the handle of Sikkel Asterism, which connects six stars to outline the head of the Great Cat in profile and appears as a back question in the air.

But just over Leo driving, north of Constellation, Leo Minor de Leeuwenwelp.This Lille, a weak constellation is pressed between Leo and Ursa Major and lies halfway on a line drawn from Regulus to Merak, the 2nd Magnitude star, who marks the right corner of the Big Dipper's Bowl.Lion Cub's brightest star, Praecipua (46 Leonis Minoris), is a light size 3.8.8.2.

Sunrise:6:45 am
Sunset:7:24 pm
Moonrise:6:47 am
Moonset:6:56 pm
Moon phase:Distracting half moon (0.5%)

Friday 1.Arril
April opens with the new moon that occurs at 1 p.m. 2: 24 A.M.EDT.This makes this a perfect evening to follow in the footsteps of Charles Messiers and to rediscover M1,Crab Nebula.(Technically, Messier did notto discoverM1-Dit distinguishes John Proof, a British amateur astronomer who found it in 1731.) Messier discovered it independently in 1758, and shortly thereafter his famous "non-cometer" catalog began to prepare, start with M1.

Wait about two hours after sunset when the sky is beautiful and dark, starting with your search.AlsoMuch longer - Taurus, who carries M1 at one of his horns, sinks slowly in the West, and when the region is too low, it will be difficult to recognize the small goal by the turbulent atmosphere.

The crab is one of the most famous Deep Sky objects above the northern hemisphere.1054, which left a "new" star in heaven that was visible for almost a month and remained a target base in the night sky for almost two years.From light - the growing scale of material that was once a huge star.To find it, you first have to find alheka (Zeta Tauri) that shines in the order of 3 and marks the tip of the right horn of the Taurus (again to look at it to be the left or southeastern horn when we go toLooking at the constellation in the sky).

Nowadays, the crab shines in the order of 8.4 and only extends 6 ′ with 4 '.1.300 kilometers) every second.0.21 bows a year when we observe the rest of heaven.The productive astrophotographerMan -Blokhas made a breathtaking time-lapse video with the expansion of Nebula from 1999 to 2021. View it below!

Sunrise:6:44 am
Sunset:7:25 pm
Moonrise:7:11 am
Moonset:8:02 pm
Moon phase:Of