Tag: Messier 37

Eyeing Auriga, Morning Moon Moves over Antares, Splaining Seeing, and Promoting Planet-Views!

Earthshine on the young crescent moon, captured by Michael watson on March 8, 2019. You can view more of Michael’s images on his Flickr page. Hello, Winter Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of January 7th, 2024 by Chris Vaughan. Feel free to pass this along to your friends and send me…
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An Absent Moon Leaves Bright Evening Planets, Awesome Auriga’s Kids, Comets, and Alternating Algol!

This wonderful image was captured around 8:30 pm EST on Saturday, February 11, 2023 by Andrea Girones from her backyard in Ottawa, Canada. It shows the green comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) as it slid past reddish Mars. The dusty tail is material left behind as the comet travels downwards (celestial southbound) in the sky. The…
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Mercury joins Jupiter at Sunset, a Waning Moon Leaves Evening to Join Venus at Dawn, Letting us Linger in Auriga!

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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