This nice photo of the First Quarter moon was taken by Michael Watson of Toronto. Michael’s galleries of astro-images are hosted on his Flickr page. Hello, Late-June Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of June 25th, 2023 by Chris Vaughan. Feel free to pass this along to your friends and send me…
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As shown above, on Wednesday, June 28, 2023 from 4:15 to 4:21 am EDT, the International Space Station will be visible flying high overhead of the GTA in an extremely bright pass, exiting Earth’s shadow low in the southwestern sky, and then flying past the bright star Altair before setting below the east-northeastern horizon. (courtesy:…
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A Close-up view of Mare Crisium when the terminator will be directly to its west on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at 10 pm EDT. (Starry Night Pro) Hello, Summer Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of June 18th, 2023 by Chris Vaughan. Feel free to pass this along to your friends and…
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As shown above, on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 from 10:00 to 10:06 pm EDT, the Chinese Tiangong Space Station will be visible flying high over the GTA in a bright pass, rising over the west-southwestern horizon near Venus, and then flying past the bright star Arcturus before entering Earth’s shadow above the eastern horizon near…
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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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As shown above, on Sunday, June 18, 2023 from 10:21 to 10:26 pm EDT, the Chinese Tiangong Space Station will be visible flying over the GTA in a bright pass, rising over the west-southwestern horizon, and then flying past the bright star Spica before entering Earth’s shadow above the eastern horizon near the bright star…
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This image of Messier 13 in Hercules, the father of all globular star clusters visible from the Northern Hemisphere, was captured by Martin Pugh. Hundreds of thousands of stars, 25,000 light-years away from the sun, are arranged in a sphere by their mutual gravitational attraction. M13 is visible as a faint fuzzy patch to the…
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On Saturday, June 3, the full Strawberry Moon will rise at sunset. This simulation shows the moon at 10 pm local time. The bright reddish star to its upper right of the moon will be Antares, the “Rival of Mars” and the brightest star in Scorpius, the Scorpion. They’ll be cosy enough to share the…
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As shown above, on Tuesday, May 30, 2023 from 9:24 to 9:30 pm EDT, the International Space Station will be visible flying high over the GTA in an extremely bright pass, rising over the west-northwestern horizon, flying past Venus and Mars and then the moon before entering Earth’s shadow just above the southeastern horizon. (courtesy:…
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This image by Michael Watson of Toronto nicely captured earthshine on the waxing crescent moon after sunset on March 8, 2019. Michael’s terrific galleries of moon images are hosted on his Flickr page. Hello, May Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of May 21st, 2023 by Chris Vaughan. Feel free to pass…
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