Mars – Page 6 – AstroGeo

Learning about Lunisolar New Years, the Evening Moon Earns Views and Meets Mars, and Plentiful Planets in Pre-dawn!

February 14, 2021

NASA’s Perseverance Rover is scheduled to land in Jerzero Crater on Thursday, February 18 at about 3:55 pm EST, joining the Hope orbiter of the United Arab Emirates and the Chinese Tianwen-1 mission that arrived on February 9 and February 10, respectively. (Image from NASA https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/landing/) Hello, Valentine’s Day, Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights…
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Evening Mars near Uranus, Suppertime Mercury Swings Sunward, and the Full Wolf Moon Meets the Winter Hexagon!

January 24, 2021

This image of Messier 35, also nick-named the Shoe-Buckle Cluster, was captured by Fred Espenak on March 29, 2011 from his home in Arizona. He affixed his Canon EOS 550D camera to a Takahashi 180mm Astrograph telescope. The photo spans about a thumb’s width top to bottom. Messier 35 is about 2800 light-years away from…
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Mercury joins Jupiter at Sunset, a Waning Moon Leaves Evening to Join Venus at Dawn, Letting us Linger in Auriga!

January 3, 2021

This long exposure image by Steve Cannistra covers 4 degrees (8 full moon diameters) left-right. It shows the rich nebulae that lurk in the centre of Auriga’s ring of bright stars, especially the Flaming Star Nebula (top left). This image was APOD for Feb 24, 2012. More of Steve’s images can be viewed at http://www.starrywonders.com/…
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Gemini is Generous with Meteors, a Southern Solar Eclipse, and the Great Conjunction’s Coming!

December 13, 2020

A composite image by Yin Hao of 37 frames spanning 8.5 hours of time on Dec 12/13 of the 2017 Geminids Meteor Shower. The meteors, streaks of ionized gas in Earth’s upper atmosphere, appear to be radiating from the twin stars Castor and Pollux at upper left – while Orion at lower right looks on.…
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A Comet in Orion, and an Early Evening Crescent Moon meets Gas Giants, and Shows Morning Meteors from Leo!

November 15, 2020

This all-sky image from November, 1998 by Juraj Toth of Modra Observatory, operated by Comenius University in Bratislava, shows about 100 Leonids meteors emanating from the region of sky near Leo. It was compiled during a 4 hour period. NASA APOD for November 4, 2001 Hello, mid-November Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the…
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Telescope-Shopping, A Comet in Orion, the Bull Bellows Meteors, Glimpse a Globular near Saturn, and the Pretty Moon meets Venus with Maximum Mercury on Mid-week Mornings!

November 8, 2020

The Double Cluster, imaged here by Volker Wendel, is about 6,800 light-years away from our sun. The area shown spans about one degree, or a thumb’s width, of sky. NASA APOD for December 7, 2007 Hello, Dark-Sky Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of November 8th, 2020 by Chris Vaughan. Feel free…
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A Puny Blue Blood Halloween Moon marks Mid-Autumn, and Bright Planets on View from Evening to Dawn!

October 25, 2020

These images of the full moon by Michael Watson of Toronto perfectly illustrate the size difference between a perigee “supermoon” and an apogee “punymoon”. The image on the right will very closely conform to the appearance of the full moon on Halloween night – when the moon will actually be about 10 hours past full…
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A Mid-Week Meteor Shower from Orion, and an Evening Moon Jumps under Giant Planets and then Exhibits an X and L-O-V-E on Friday!

October 18, 2020

Hello, mid-October Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of October 18th, 2020 by Chris Vaughan. Feel free to pass this along to your friends and send me your comments, questions, and suggested topics. You can also follow me on Twitter as @astrogeoguy! Unless otherwise noted, all times are expressed in Eastern Time.…
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Tips for Viewing MARS at Maximum Size, the Waning Moon Rides the Bull, and the Dragon Spits Stars!

October 4, 2020

This amazing image of Mars was taken on October 2, 2020 at 11:13 EDT by my friend Claudio Oriani of Richmond Hill, Ontario through his Celestron C8 SCT and a ZWO AS1224MC camera. The southern polar cap and the dark Syrtis Major regions are obvious. Hello, October Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the…
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The Bright Harvest Moon wades through Water Constellations, then Mambos with Mars, Venus Kisses Regulus, and Bright Baubles for Your Bubble!

September 27, 2020

This spectacular photograph of the pre-dawn zodiacal light was captured on September 25, 2020 at 5:37 am by Malcolm Park of Prince Edward County, Ontario. The bright point at centre is the planet Venus. The knot of stars above Venus is Messier 44, also known as the Beehive Cluster, in Cancer. Malcolm’s gallery of beautiful…
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