Tag: Southern Draconids Meteor Shower

The Morning Moon Helps Meteors Mount and the Eagle’s Sights, Evening Star Venus, and Shiny Saturn at Opposition near Jupiter!

The Ghost of the Moon planetary nebula aka NGC 6781 in Aquila, photographed by the European Southern Observatory 3.6-m Telescope at the La Silla Observatory in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The image spans 4.5 arc-minutes of sky, or 15% of the full moon. The object is an expanding sphere of gas – the outer shells…
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Comet NEOWISE Becomes a Binoculars Object, the Evening Moon Meets Pretty Planets, Meteors, and Venus Kisses the Ruby Star!

This simulated image of Saturn for Sunday, July 26 at 10:30 pm EDT shows several of the larger moons labelled and the distinctive Cassini Division that splits the rings. Hello, Late-July Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of July 26th, 2020 by Chris Vaughan. Feel free to pass this along to your…
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