The circumstances for Tuesday’s partial solar eclipse, which will occur during the new moon syzygy. The eclipse will only be visible with protective solar filters across parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia. This scene shows the position of the moon’s shadow on Earth at 11:01 GMT on October 25, 2022. (Starry Night) Hello, Late-October Stargazers!…
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During evening in early October, the Great Square of Pegasus is visible in the eastern sky. the horse’s nose star, Enif, shines about two fist diameters to the right of the square. Orange-tinted Enif has a tiny companion star visible in binoculars and backyard telescopes. The spectacular globular star cluster named Messier 15 (upper right)…
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This gorgeous scene captures summer nights in Canada. It was taken by my friend Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn on April 23, 2022. While autumn will soon arrive, its earlier sunsets will allow us to continue to view the Milky Way’s treasures for some time to come. The pink patches in this image are nebulas. They are…
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This terrific image of the summer Milky Way rising from the southern sky, was captured on the moonless weekend of August 27, 2022 by Manu Mukerji while at the Carr Astronomical Observatory operated by the RASC Toronto Centre northwest of Toronto. In the foreground is a SkyShed Pod, a favorite of serious amateur astronomers who…
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On Saturday, September 3, 2022, the moon will reach its first quarter phase. (Starry Night Pro) Hello, September Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of August 28th, 2022 by Chris Vaughan. Feel free to pass this along to your friends and send me your comments, questions, and suggested topics. You can also…
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A detailed map of the lunar region around Copernicus, which is best viewed as the moon is within several days of full. (Stellarium) Hello, August Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of August 7th, 2022 by Chris Vaughan. Feel free to pass this along to your friends and send me your comments,…
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User Eberhard Stickel requested this north-up image of Comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS) through the luminance filter of the robotic Burke-Gaffney Observatory at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, NS. The dust tail extending upwards reveals the comet’s trajectory downwards. The sun is toward upper right. The double star below the comet is Struve 2122 in central…
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This image of the big and bright globular star cluster Messier 5 in Serpens was captured by Adam Block at Mount Lemmon Sky Center, University of Arizona. The image covers about 20 arc-minutes of the sky, left-to-right. Note the old yellow stars sprinkled throughout. Hello, Mid-May Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week…
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This beautiful composite image, taken by Michael Watson of Toronto during the Total Lunar Eclipse of April 15, 2014, closely resembles what observers in most of the Americas will see starting on Sunday night, May 15, 2022. Michael has arranged the images to show the round shape of Earth’s shadow, as expressed during the partial…
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This terrific image by Benjamin Law of Stouffville, Ontario shows the Leo Quartet of galaxies, which is located in the neck of Leo, the Lion. Leo is visible high in the western sky in evening during May. Other names for this group are Hickson 44 and the NGC 3190 Group. The north-up image covers 20…
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