NASA’s Moon Phase and Libration visualization tool will generate hour-by-hour annotated views of the moon, such as this one for 10 pm EDT on May 31, 2020. You can find more at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4768. There is also an option to generate south up views for use at your telescope eyepiece. Hello, Moon Lovers! Here are your…
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This lovely widefield image of Auriga (the Charioteer) was taken by Alan Dyer of Calgary on January 23, 2011. It nicely shows the rich clusters and star fields that populate that constellation’s circlet of stars. The Flaming star Nebula is the red patch. Other knots of stars are open clusters. Capella, or Alpha Aurigae, is…
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This heart-shaped feature on Mars was imaged by the Mars Orbiter Camera in 1999. It measures 2.3 km across at its widest, and is located on the eastern flank of the Alba Patera volcano in northern Tharsis. The sunlight is illuminating the scene from the left. The feature is a pit formed by collapse within…
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