Tag: Great Square of Pegasus

Bright Planets Bracket Evening, Medusa Winks, the Morning Moon Covers Spica, and a Peek at Pegasus!

NGC 7479 aka the Superman Galaxy and the Propeller Galaxy is located below (south of) the bright star Markab in Pegasus. One of my favourite galaxies, it is considered peculiar due to its asymmetrical arms. It spans about 1/15th the diameter of a full moon and is visible in larger telescopes on dark nights. This…
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We Stop Saving Daylight, See Some Shooting Stars, and Eye the Moon in Evening While Jupiter Sports Spots!

The trio of craters Theophilus, Cyrillus, and Catharina flank the western edge of Mare-Nectaris. They are easy to see when the lunar terminator lands just to their west as shown here for Wednesday, November 6 (NASA) Hello, Mid-Autumn Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of November 3rd, 2024 by Chris Vaughan. Feel…
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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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Bright Giants in Evening, The Young Moon Veers Past Venus, and Pegasus Flies High!

This image of the bright globular cluster Messier 15 in Pegasus was taken by Ron Brecher in February, 2015. This image spans about one degree of the sky. Ron’s galleries of fine astro-images can be enjoyed at his website www.astrodoc.ca Hello, October Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of October 3rd, 2021…
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An Ancient Yule, a Comet in the Camel Leopard, the Sun Surrounds the New Moon, and a Flight through Pegasus!

This image of the beautiful Superman Galaxy, more formally known as NGC7479 and Caldwell 44, was captured by Goran Nilsson using the 2-metre Liverpool Telescope on the Canary Islands. The galaxy is 105 million light-years away from the sun, in the constellation of Pegasus. It’s also considered by astronomers to be “peculiar”. Hello, December Stargazers!…
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The Dragon Spits Fire, the Full Moon is Puny, and Jupiter Sports Two Spots!

On Sunday evening, October 13, observers in the Americas can see a rare double-shadow transit on Jupiter. At dusk, Europa’s shadow will be midway across the northern hemisphere of the planet – accompanied by the Great Red Spot. Shortly before 8 pm EDT, Io’s shadow will join in the fun for approximately 35 minutes –…
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