Tag: Bright stars

The Full Strawberry Moon, Maximum Mercury after Sunset, Both Gas Giant Planets Enter Evening Skies, and Comet PanSTARRS Passes Dubhe!

NASA’s Moon Phase and Libration visualization tool will generate hour-by-hour annotated views of the moon, such as this one for 10 pm EDT on May 31, 2020. You can find more at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4768. There is also an option to generate south up views for use at your telescope eyepiece. Hello, Moon Lovers! Here are your…
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More Meteors Briefly, Merry Perihelion, a Paucity of Planets, and the Stunning Stars of January!

This wide field photograph of the sky shows Orion at left and Taurus to the upper right. The stars have been slightly overexposed to emphasize their colours and relative brightnesses. Normally, reddish Betelgeuse at Orion’s shoulder (left above centre) is the same brightness as blue Rigel at Orion’s opposite foot. But recent images shows Betelgeuse…
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