Tag: celestial coordinates

New Moon Brings an Annular Solar Eclipse, Brightest Planets Bracket the Pre-dawn Sky, and Pegasus Points to the Celestial Centre!

This annular solar eclipse occured on June 6, 2021. Proper solar filters or image projection is required to view every part of an annular eclipse. It’s Solar Eclipse Time, Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of October 8th, 2023 by Chris Vaughan. Feel free to pass this along to your friends and…
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Appreciating Pegasus While the Moon Abandons Evening, the Bull Bellows Meteors, and Mars Makes an Impression!

My friend Alan Dyer of Calgary, Alberta captured this wonderful wide-field image of the fully eclipsed moon on Tuesday morning, November 8, 2022. The brilliant white star Sirius (lower left), bright red Mars (top centre), and the blood red moon (far right) surround the winter stars of Orion and Taurus. Enjoy more of Alan’s work…
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