Tag: Cassini Division

Shadows Join Jupiter, Reading the Rings, Diminishing Meteors, a Mounting Moon Sips Earth’s Shadow, and Venus Gleams at Dawn!

This image of the Lunar Straight Wall or Rupes Recta in Mare Nubium was captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. While the feature can be seen through binoculars, a backyard telescope will reveal more detail. (Adapted from NASA LRO) Hello, October Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of October 22nd, 2023 by…
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A New Comet, Exploring the Fullish Moon’s Western Wastes, the Moon Covers Uranus, Mounting Meteors, and Mars Menaces a Crab!

I took this unprocessed image of Saturn through the 74″ (1.88 metre) diameter telescope at the David Dunlap Observatory in Richmond Hill, Ontario at 9:13 pm EDT on October 3, 2022. Note the bands on the planet, and the dark Cassini Division that separates the outer from the inner rings. The wedge of shadow cast…
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