New Moon – Page 4

Maximum Mercury in Evening, Morning Moon Passes Planets as Venus Kisses King Jupiter, and a Galaxy Facts Blast!

April 24, 2022

A sampling of galaxy forms. Clockwise from upper left: Messier 87 “Virgo A” (elliptical), Messier 102 “Spindle” (lenticular), NGC 1365 (barred spiral), NGC 4656 “the Crowbar” (irregular), and Messier 81 “Bode’s Nebula” (spiral). All except NGC 1365 are visible on spring evenings from mid-northern latitudes. Hello, late-April Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the…
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The Thin Morning Moon’s Visit With Pretty Planets Lets Leo Lead Us to Spring Galaxies in Evening!

March 27, 2022

This terrific Wikipedia image by Hunter Wilson from March 28, 2008 shows the Leo Triplet of Galaxies, which is located south-southeast of the bright star Chertan in Leo. The photograph, with celestial north up and East toward left, covers 0.6 degrees of the sky left-to-right. The Hamburger Galaxy is at the top – do you…
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Pretty Planets Kiss and Dance at Dawn, and Some Dark Sky Delights Til the Librated Cat Comes Back!

February 27, 2022

The Sword of Orion imaged by John Deans in Bancroft, Ontario on February 2021. This image covers about a thumb’s width of sky, top-to-bottom. The trapezium cluster lies in the heart of the nebula (above centre). Hello, March Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of February 27th, 2022 by Chris Vaughan. Feel…
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Groundhogs Have a Happy Lunar New Year, Young Moon Meets Jupiter, Mars Moves Past Messiers, and Winter Way Wonders!

January 30, 2022

This amazing image of the young crescent moon, which triggered the Lunar New Year, was captured by Michael Watson from mid-town Toronto on February 19, 2015 at 6:37 pm EST, when the Moon was 23 hours 48 minutes past its new phase. Such moons are difficult to see it and to photograph. Happy Lunar New…
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Merry Perihelion, Max Sized Venus and Maximum Mercury, Dual Lunar Phases, Meteors from a Fossil Constellation, and Three Deep Sky Tours!

January 2, 2022

With unaided eyes, three patches of light make up the sword of Orion, which hangs below his famous 3-starred belt. My friend John Deans of Toronto captured this image of Orion’s Sword while in Bancroft during February, 2021. Even binoculars will reveal that the central patch of light is the splendid Orion Nebula, also known…
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The New Moon Eclipsed, Hanukkah Happens, Planets Gathered in Evening, and Night Sights in Cassiopeia and Andromeda!

November 28, 2021

This image of Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) was taken recently by Dan Bartlett from a dark sky site above the Eastern Sierras Mountains in California. The coma’s greenish glow should be apparent in a telescope. The dust tail may be a challenge. The image was featured as NASA’s APOD for November 21, 2021 Hello, Stargazers!…
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The Moon’s Mostly Missing Crescent Covers Planets, See Ceres Crossing Star-Shooting Taurus, and Aquarius’ Lucky Stars!

October 31, 2021

This colour-composite image of the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) was created from images obtained using the Wide Field Imager camera on the 2.2-metre ESO telescope at the La Silla observatory in Chile. The colours arise from a shell of gases energized by the radiation of the tiny central star. This image spans the same diameter…
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Pre-Sunrise Scattered Sunlight, Best Neptune, Young Moon Meets Inner Planets and the Scorpion’s Snippers, and Soaring with Cygnus!

September 5, 2021

This gorgeous image of the North America Nebula, and the Pelican Nebula to its right, was captured by Roman Kulesza. The pink colour arises from glowing hydrogen gas. Opaque dust in the foreground is separating the single large gas cloud into two nebulas, and producing the unique shapes. It was the SkyNews Photo of the…
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A Look at Ophiuchus, Aphelion for Earthlings, Mighty Planets Post-midnight, Young Moon meets Mercury, and then Venus-Mars!

July 4, 2021

This terrific image by Amir H. Abolfath was featured in NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for October 14, 2020. The bright star inside the orange zone at lower left is Antares in Scorpius. The big and bright globular cluster Messier 4 sits to its lower right. The pink region is glowing hydrogen gas…
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The New Moon Munches the Sun, Prime Planets after Midnight, and Moonless Evenings Grant Glittering Globulars!

June 6, 2021

A fine example of an annular solar eclipse during totality (annularity)! Much of Eastern North America will see a typical partial eclipse (with a bite out of the sun) already in progress at sunrise on Thursday, June 10. It will end at 6:39 am EDT. Use proper solar filters to view any of this eclipse…
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