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JD 2460428  DoY 118  WoY 17
🔼04:55
🔽18:27

TWILIGHT
03:23~20:00
Ecl Long 37.3°
in Aries

Waning gibbous
Age 17.71 d
Phase 144.1°
Ecl Long 253.3°
in Ophiuchus

SSE

Current asteroid count is 1,351,400

Observable comet count is 1117

Current exoplanet count is 5616

Current longitude II of the GRS is  52°

 

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Planet Oppositions

Mars: January 16, 2025
Jupiter: December 7, 2024
Saturn: September 8, 2024
Uranus: November 17, 2024
Neptune: September 31, 2024

 

Greatest Elongation of Venus

Evening: January 10, 2025 at 47.2°E
Morning: June 1, 2025 at 45.9°W

 

Greatest Elongation of Mercury

Evening: December 4,2023 at 21.3°E
Morning: January 12, 2024 at 23.5°W
Evening: March 24, 2024 at 18.7°E
Morning: May 9, 2024 at 26.4°W
Evening: July 22, 2024 at 26.9°E
Morning: September 5, 2024 at 18.1°W
Evening: November 16, 2024 at 22.5°E
Morning: December 25, 2024 at 22.0°W




Super Moons (full) 2024

Wednesday, September 18
Thursday, October 17

 

given for 00:00 UT

In Longitude (negative is western)

DateSizeAgeAnglePhase
07 Jan 202430.79'25.02-6.650°
08 Jan 202431.26'26.02-6.770°
03 Feb 202430.30'22.50-6.973°
04 Feb 202430.72'23.50-7.583°
05 Feb 202431.20'24.50-7.769°
06 Feb 202431.72'25.50-7.466°
07 Feb 202432.24'26.50-6.651°
16 Feb 202431.66'6.046.779°
17 Feb 202431.21'7.046.981°
18 Feb 202430.80'8.046.862°
02 Mar 202430.25'21.04-7.149°
03 Mar 202430.63'22.04-7.776°
04 Mar 202431.08'23.04-8.028°
05 Mar 202431.57'24.04-7.844°
06 Mar 202432.08'25.04-7.186°
15 Mar 202431.85'4.636.947°
16 Mar 202431.33'5.637.325°
17 Mar 202430.85'6.637.301°
18 Mar 202430.43'7.636.920°
30 Mar 202430.34'19.63-6.691°
31 Mar 202430.66'20.63-7.202°
01 Apr 202431.03'21.63-7.405°
02 Apr 202431.45'22.63-7.261°
03 Apr 202431.89'23.63-6.743°
13 Apr 202431.46'4.246.865°
14 Apr 202430.95'5.246.983°
15 Apr 202430.50'6.246.697°
14 Aug 202430.51'9.53-6.644°
15 Aug 202430.96'10.53-6.946°
16 Aug 202431.45'11.53-6.807°
27 Aug 202431.47'22.536.648°
28 Aug 202431.09'23.536.822°
29 Aug 202430.74'24.536.717°
11 Sep 202430.44'7.92-7.081°
12 Sep 202430.88'8.92-7.442°
13 Sep 202431.38'9.92-7.388°
14 Sep 202431.90'10.92-6.884°
23 Sep 202432.03'19.926.983°
24 Sep 202431.54'20.927.577°
25 Sep 202431.07'21.927.769°
26 Sep 202430.64'22.927.584°
27 Sep 202430.28'23.927.067°
09 Oct 202430.41'6.22-6.872°
10 Oct 202430.80'7.22-7.260°
11 Oct 202431.24'8.22-7.306°
12 Oct 202431.73'9.22-6.971°
21 Oct 202432.22'18.226.835°
22 Oct 202431.69'19.227.618°
23 Oct 202431.17'20.227.933°
24 Oct 202430.69'21.227.796°
25 Oct 202430.28'22.227.257°
19 Nov 202431.78'17.476.845°
20 Nov 202431.27'18.477.271°
21 Nov 202430.79'19.477.223°
22 Nov 202430.36'20.476.738°

 

In Latitude (negative is southern)

DateSizeAgeAnglePhase
24 Jan 202430.14'12.50-6.549°
25 Jan 202429.93'13.50-6.528°
08 Feb 202432.71'27.506.591°
20 Feb 202430.14'10.04-6.658°
21 Feb 202429.89'11.04-6.663°
05 Mar 202431.57'24.046.523°
06 Mar 202432.08'25.046.747°
07 Mar 202432.58'26.046.568°
18 Mar 202430.43'7.63-6.754°
19 Mar 202430.07'8.63-6.810°
20 Mar 202429.80'9.63-6.556°
02 Apr 202431.45'22.636.801°
03 Apr 202431.89'23.636.741°
14 Apr 202430.95'5.24-6.695°
15 Apr 202430.50'6.24-6.846°
16 Apr 202430.12'7.24-6.665°
29 Apr 202431.18'20.246.717°
30 Apr 202431.49'21.246.734°
12 May 202430.97'3.86-6.734°
13 May 202430.54'4.86-6.649°
26 May 202431.26'17.866.556°
27 May 202431.51'18.866.627°
08 Jun 202431.21'1.47-6.565°
09 Jun 202430.83'2.47-6.570°
23 Jun 202431.72'16.476.548°
06 Jul 202430.85'0.04-6.542°
20 Jul 202431.77'14.046.576°
01 Aug 202431.01'26.04-6.516°
02 Aug 202430.73'27.04-6.622°
16 Aug 202431.45'11.536.680°
17 Aug 202431.94'12.536.611°
28 Aug 202431.09'23.53-6.608°
29 Aug 202430.74'24.53-6.758°
30 Aug 202430.43'25.53-6.567°
12 Sep 202430.88'8.926.748°
13 Sep 202431.38'9.926.795°
24 Sep 202431.54'20.92-6.608°
25 Sep 202431.07'21.92-6.837°
26 Sep 202430.64'22.92-6.706°
09 Oct 202430.41'6.226.695°
10 Oct 202430.80'7.226.831°
11 Oct 202431.24'8.226.620°
22 Oct 202431.69'19.22-6.763°
23 Oct 202431.17'20.22-6.728°
05 Nov 202430.24'3.476.535°
06 Nov 202430.52'4.476.723°
07 Nov 202430.84'5.476.580°
18 Nov 202432.26'16.47-6.549°
19 Nov 202431.78'17.47-6.638°
03 Dec 202430.57'1.746.584°
16 Dec 202432.04'14.74-6.545°
30 Dec 202430.69'28.746.543°

Source: NASA/GSFC

 

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Latest Deepsky Image

2024-02-15, Samyang 135mm, Uranus-C (IMX585), UV/IR-Cut

 

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Hubble Celebrates 34th Anniversary with a Look at the Little Dumbbell Nebula

April 23, 2024

Taking up most of the image, is a multi-colored nebula appearing as two translucent orbs attached by a white band.

Taking up most of the image, is a multi-colored nebula appearing as two translucent orbs attached by a white band.

Source: Space Telescope Science Institute

Tonight's Sky


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NASA Image of the Day

Hubble Spots a Magnificent Barred Galaxy

The magnificent central bar of NGC 2217 (also known as AM 0619-271) shines bright in the constellation of Canis Major (The Greater Dog), in this image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Roughly 65 million light-years from Earth, this barred spiral galaxy is a similar size to our Milky Way at 100,000 light-years across.

Click to enlarge or show full screen

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:01 GMT


Source: www.nasa.gov

 

 

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ConstellationMonoceros
Distance66.32 parsec
Magnitude6.96 vis.
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Polaris Australis (Sig Ser) in Ser [HIP 104382]

Distance: 270 light-years, Magnitude: 5.45

Sigma Octantis is also called 'Polaris Australis' for being the South Star and represents the State of Distrito Federal on the flag of Brazil. To an observer in the southern hemisphere, Sigma Octantis appears almost motionless and all the other stars in the Southern sky appear to rotate around it. It is part of a small "half hexagon" shape. It is over a degree away from the true south pole, and the south celestial pole is moving away from it due to precession of the equinoxes. The star is too dim for navigational purposes.

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Distance: 16 light-years, Magnitude: 6.5

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Magnitude: 9.7

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Canes Venatici (northern), area rank: 38

Located south of the Big Dipper. Way back this constellation was a part of Ursa Major. In the 17th century, it was given independency as a new constellation by astronomer Johannes Hevelius. A large and a small galaxy, M51 (Whirlpool Galaxy), appear to be connected.

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1998 KY26 (Asteroid)

Semi-major: 1.23217 AU, Size: 30 km

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Dysnomia (moon of Eris)

Discovered in 2005, Dysnomia is the only known moon of dwarf planet Eris. Dysnomia plays a role in determining how comparable Pluto and Eris are to each other.

 

 

K2-131 b (in Virgo)

Mass: 0.02486 xJup
Radius: 0.151 xJup
SMA: 0.00936 AU
Period: 0.369304 days
Distance: 152.509 parsec
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ESI: 0.270363

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Dark Site in Morocco

Some say that the seeing is better only in space.

Click on the banner to visit the new website of SaharaSky, the first and currently only private observatory with Casbah-style *** hotel in North Africa.

 

The owner, Fritz, is a German with a life-long passion for astronomy. Then, as he felt in deep love with Morocco and its wonderful people, he built a self-contained hotel at the feet of the Sahara about 30 kilometers to the southeast of the town of Zagora entirely in the traditional southern Moroccan Casbah-style and equipped it, besides comfortable rooms, a restaurant, spa and sauna, with a rich portfolio of optical instruments and accessories for amateur astronomers.

Fritz chose the location extremely well, a truly dark site in absence of city and street lights, blessed with an average of 300 clear dry nights annually. The observatory atop the hotel building offers a 360 degrees panoramic view on 500 square meters.

Most guests are professional and amateur astronomers, but also people of all ages with affection for the fascination of the stars and the desert. From the hotel's wide roof terrace, everybody can enjoy the starry sky dominated by the arch of the Milky Way with bare eyes or with rental telescopes and cameras.

The heart and soul of SaharaSky's observatory is Patrick from Belgium, not only a senior professional astronomer, but also a talented animator and entertainer under the Saharan stars.

A stay at SaharaSky is not limited to the night sky. SaharaSky provides equipment for solar observation, but Fritz also organises desert excursions for several days, overnight or day-return treks in a 4x4 or on dromedar backs, plus guided tours to historically invaluable local sites, such as the Petroglyphs of Ait Ouazzik.

Owner and staff as a team speak Arabic, local Berber, English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch.

Scotty, lock on to the coordinates of SaharaSky and beam us over!


SaharaSky owns telescopes with apertures from 40 to 400mm, such as Takahashi APOs, each of which can be saddled on high precision GM2000 mounts featuring GPS, GoTo and accurate guiding for both, visual observation and photography.

 

 

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