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CentaurZ

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  1. The opposition and occultation will occur tomorrow night. Unfortunately no occultation for me and my neighbors here in Florida. Photos will be appreciated.
  2. You're welcome, Stu. The opposition and occultation will occur tomorrow night for much of North America and Europe. Unfortonately, no occultation for me and my neighbors here in Florida. Hopefully those of you in the occultation zone will provide photos, preferably in my similar threads for Observing - Planetary or Lunar.
  3. Both Mercury and Venus have moved into our early evening sky. Elusive Mercury will appear there until early in the new year, while brilliant Venus will remain until mid-summer. Photos and descriptions of Mercury and Venus during their apparitions would be welcome additions to this thread.
  4. And here are 2 occultation graze maps for North America and Europe.
  5. Mars will reach opposition from the Sun during the night of December 07-08. At the same time, it will be occulted (covered) by the Full Moon for observers in portions of North America and Europe. Photos and descriptions of Mars during its current apparition would be welcome additions to this thread. If you would like specific occultation or graze predictions for your location, please reply to this post with your longitude, latitude, elevation and time zone. Below are 2 charts with data for observers in both Chicagoland and London. Chicagoland data: London Data:
  6. Mars will reach opposition from the Sun during the night of December 07-08. At the same time, it will be occulted (covered) by the Full Moon for observers in portions of North America and Europe. Photos and descriptions of Mars during its current apparition would be welcome additions to this thread. If you would like specific occultation or graze predictions for your location, please reply to this post with your longitude, latitude, elevation and time zone. Below are 2 charts with data for observers in both Chicagoland and London. Chicagoland data: London Data:
  7. A Total Lunar Eclipse will occur during the pre-dawn hours of 2022 NOV 08 for observers in North America. Also that evening for those in the lands bordering the western Pacific Ocean. Sorry Europeans, you're shut out. Below is my rendering of the stages of the eclipse. It's a preview graphic for the upcoming eclipse as seen against an imaginary blue wall to make the shadow fully apparent. The predicted event timings are in CST (UT-6), but will occur at essentially the same real time for all observers experiencing nighttime. The depicted orientation and Moon altitudes are for an observer at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium. Photos and descriptions of the eclipse would be welcome additions to my similar thread in the Observing-Lunar forum.
  8. A Total Lunar Eclipse will occur during the pre-dawn hours of 2022 NOV 08 for observers in North America. Also that evening for those in the lands bordering the western Pacific Ocean. Sorry Europeans, you're shut out. Below is my rendering of the stages of the eclipse. It's a preview graphic for the upcoming eclipse as seen against an imaginary blue wall to make the shadow fully apparent. The predicted event timings are in CST (UT-6), but will occur at essentially the same real time for all observers experiencing nighttime. The depicted orientation and Moon altitudes are for an observer at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium. Photos and descriptions of the eclipse would be welcome additions to this thread.
  9. The shadows of the Galilean satellites #2 Europa and #3 Ganymede will be simultaneously transiting Jupiter during the night of 2022 NOV 02-03. The time for my rendeing below is given as CDT (UT-5). That is 00:37 UT. Photos and descriptions of the transits would be welcome additions to this thread.
  10. Well that's not quite as bad as being under a hurricane alert, as we are here in southwest Florida.
  11. Bright giant planet Jupiter will appear in opposition from the Sun on 2022 SEP 26. It will be its closest to Earth and brightest since 1963 at magnitude -2.9. Photos and descriptions of Jupiter along with its four great Galilean satellites during its current apparition would be welcome additions to my similar thread in the forum for Observing-Planetary.
  12. Bright giant planet Jupiter will appear in opposition from the Sun on 2022 SEP 26. It will be its closest to Earth and brightest since 1963 at magnitude -2.9. Photos and descriptions of Jupiter along with its four great Galilean satellites during its current apparition would be welcome additions to this thread.
  13. It’s nearly time for my monthly New Moon spotting challenge. I use the term New Moon in its classical sense of one’s first sighting of the Moon after its monthly solar conjunction (Dark Moon). Sharp-eyed observers might attempt to spot the one-day-old Moon after sunset on Monday, September 26th. Most others should have better luck the following evening.
  14. Mars will reach opposition from the Sun during the night of December 07-08. At the same time, it will be occulted (covered) by the Full Moon for observers in portions of North America and Europe. Photos and descriptions of Mars during its current apparition would be welcome additions to this thread. If you would like specific occultation or graze predictions for your location, please reply to this post with your longitude, latitude, elevation and time zone. Below are 2 charts with data for observers in both Chicagoland and London. Chicagoland data: London data:
  15. A waxing gibbous Moon will occult (cover) the magnitude +3.3 star Tau Sagittatii for telescopic observers in North America during the night of 2022 SEP 05-06. The immersion will occur on the lunar dark limb, with emersion from the bright limb. Lucky observers on a graze path can witness the star passing through lunar hills and valleys. Those between the two graze paths will see a full occultation. Photos and descriptions of the occultation would be welcome additions to this thread. If you would like specific occultation or graze predictions for your location, please reply to this post with your longitude, latitude, elevation and time zone.
  16. Asteroid 3 Juno will appear within Aquarius in opposition to the Sun on 2022 Sep 07 at magnitude +7.7. It is the second most massive stony asteroid. Vesta was discovered in 1804 and has a mean diameter of 233 km. Photos and descriptions of Juno would be welcome additions to this thread.
  17. It’s nearly time for my monthly New Moon spotting challenge. I use the term New Moon in its classical sense of one’s first sighting of the Moon after its monthly solar conjunction (Dark Moon). Sharp-eyed observers might attempt to spot the less than one-day-old Moon after sunset on Saturday, August 27th. Most others should have better luck the following evening.
  18. Here in Florida, not only are we getting the usual early evening rain clouds, but also dust clouds from the Sahara. At least the latter inhibit hurricanes during what is normally hurricane season. Vesta will still be out most of the night for quite a while. We await your report and photos.
  19. Here is my rendering of how the event will appear from far above Jupiter's north pole:
  20. Here is my timetable of Galilean Satellite Events for the next 24 hours:
  21. The shadows of the Galilean satellites #1 Io and #3 Ganymede will be simultaneously transiting Jupiter during the night of 2022 AUG 15-16. Photos and descriptions of the transits would be welcome additions to this thread. The graphic is for 00:00 CDT (UT-5) or 05:00 UT.
  22. Ringed Saturn currently rises during the early evening as it approaches its opposition from the Sun on 2022 AUG 14, when it will be out all night at stellar magnitude +0.3. Its rings will appear tilted at +13.9°. At the time of its opposition, Saturn’s brightness peaks abruptly, unlike the gentle brightness curve for other planets. This sharp “oppositional flash” is due to a lack of a visible shadow of its rings on the planet, and the lack of ring particle shadows visible on each other, as viewed from Earth. Photos and descriptions of Saturn and its rings would be welcome additions to this thread.
  23. The annual Perseid Meteor Shower is already underway. The Perseids are usually the finest shower of the year. Normally at the peak more than sixty meteors per hour may be seen by some sharp-eyed folks. The Perseids are debris from the periodic comet 109P Swift-Tuttle. The shower is expected to peak during the night of 2022 AUG 12-13. Its radiant is in the constellation Perseus. That is the direction toward which the meteor tails point, but the meteors are equally likely to appear anywhere in your sky. For observers north of the tropics, the meteors appear virtually all night, although most prolifically during the hours before dawn. This year the waning gibbous Moon near the shower’s peak may provide significant interference. Descriptions of the shower or perhaps even lucky photos would be welcome additions to this thread.
  24. Asteroid 4 Vesta will appear within Capricornus in opposition to the Sun on 2022 AUG 22. It is the asteroid that can get the brightest, and at stellar magnitude +5.8 it should be visible to sharp naked eyes. Vesta was discovered in 1807 and has a mean diameter of 525 km. Photos and descriptions of Vesta would be welcome additions to this thread.
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