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Morning Moon with Planets, a Spotted Saturn, and Starry Nights with Smoke and Meteors!

The Astrospheric app forest fire smoke distribution map across North America for Sunday night, July 28, 2024. Purple and red indicate the most severe smoke loading in the sky overhead. Many weather forecasts will predict clear, cloudless skies – but observers and imagers will find the fainter celestial objects significantly dimmed. I highly recommend the…
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Smoky Skies, Noctilucent Clouds, the Morning Moon Passes Planets, Venus Kisses the Bees, and Eyeing Ophiuchus!

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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