Tag: Diamond Ring asterism

Comet Pons-Brooks, Our Clocks Click Forward, the Moon Appears Pretty, Eyeing Australe, and Stars Guard the Pole Star!

Malcolm Park captured this terrific widefield image of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks on March 4 2024. The Andromeda Galaxy is prominent at the upper right, and the triangulum galaxy is fuzzy at top left. This week the comet will travel between the two widely separated bright stars Mirach (above centre) and bluish Alpheratz (below centre). Enjoy more…
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Mid-Spring’s Full Milk Moon Spoils Stargazing and Attenuates the Eta-Aquariids, Evening Venus and Mars, and Ursae Musing!

This colour image of the moon during the penumbral lunar eclipse of September 16, 2016 was taken by Robin Lee in Hong Kong. It was the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day for Oct 12, 2016. Welcome to mid-Spring, Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of April 30th, 2023 by Chris Vaughan.…
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