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JD 2460398  DoY 88  WoY 13
🔼05:34
🔽18:03

TWILIGHT
04:09~19:28
Ecl Long 8.8°
in Pisces

Waning gibbous
Age 18.09 d
Phase 139.4°
Ecl Long 229.3°
in Libra

SSE

Current asteroid count is 1,351,400

Observable comet count is 1108

Current exoplanet count is 5599

Current longitude II of the GRS is  52°

 

Today Monitor

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

 

Lunar Calendar 2024

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Latest Deepsky Image

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

 

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2023-11-23, Celestron 8, Uranus-C, UV/IR-Cut filter

 

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2023-11-23, Celestron 8, Uranus-C, UV/IR-Cut filter

 

Latest Wide Field Image

2024-01-13, Nikon D5500, Samyang 135mm with LPR, at f/2.0, 98 x 60s, ISO1600

 

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Latest Lunar Image

C8, ASI290MM, IR642 filter (Mar 16, 2024).

 

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Lunar Impressions February 2024

Astronomy Picture of the Day

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Latest STScI News Release

Three-Year Study of Young Stars with NASA's Hubble Enters New Chapter

March 28, 2024

A roughly circular, wreath-like area of red, orange, beige, brown, and green clouds with many wisps and filaments. Near the center of this wreath-like structure is a dark cavity filled with hundreds of sparkling, blue stars. The stars are not evenly distributed, with more on the right half of the image. Some blue stars also appear on top of the surrounding, wispy clouds.

A roughly circular, wreath-like area of red, orange, beige, brown, and green clouds with many wisps and filaments. Near the center of this wreath-like structure is a dark cavity filled with hundreds of sparkling, blue stars. The stars are not evenly distributed, with more on the right half of the image. Some blue stars also appear on top of the surrounding, wispy clouds.

Source: Space Telescope Science Institute

Tonight's Sky


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NASA Image of the Day

Mariner 7 Goes to Mars

An Atlas-Centaur launched at 5:22 p.m. EST on March 27, 1969, to send Mariner 7 on its way to Mars. Mariner 7 joined its sister spacecraft, Mariner 6, on a journey that carried them within 2,000 miles of the red planet that summer. Mariner 6 was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 24 and investigated the Martian equatorial area while Mariner 7 concentrated on the south polar cap.

Click to enlarge or show full screen

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:53 GMT


Source: www.nasa.gov

 

 

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ConstellationPisces
Distance37.66 parsec
Magnitude10.77 vis.
Spectral typeK7 V
Mass0.69 xSun
Radius0.65 xSun
Temperature4203°K
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Tseen Yin (Zet Ara) in Ara [HIP 83081]

Distance: 574 light-years, Magnitude: 3.12

Zeta Arae is a giant evolved star with depleted hydrogen. An excess of infrared emission may indicate circumstellar matter.

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GJ 876 A (Ross 780) in Aquarius

Distance: 15 light-years, Magnitude: 10.1

GJ 876 or Ross 780 has 4 known planets, two of them orbiting in the habitable zone. Merely 1.24% as luminous as the Sun while most of this is emitted at infrared wavelengths. Ross 780 has a slightly lower (75%) abundance of heavy elements compared to the Sun.

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M65 (Galaxy) in Leo

Magnitude: 10.1

M65 is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 35 million light-years away. M65, M66, and NGC 3628 comprise the famous Leo Triplet, a small group of galaxies. M65 is low in dust and gas, and there is little star formation explaining the high ratio of old stars to new stars.

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Taurus (northern), area rank: 17

One of the 12 zodiac constellations marked by the 1st-magnitude star Aldebaran shining at the upper right of Orion. Taurus contains the Hyades and Plejades star clusters which can be seen with the naked eye even in cities, however, observation with a pair of binoculars is more rewarding.

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17P/Holmes

Discovered in 1892, 3.4km wide (estimated) 17P/Holmes is a short-period comet currently orbiting the sun in 6.88 years. During October 2007, an outburst brightened the comet up to naked eye visibility, as its coma expanded to an angular size larger than the Sun's while shinig at +2.8 magnitudes. Since Holmes lacked a tail it looked more like a ball with a circular coma around it.

 

 

Nemesis (Asteroid)

Semi-major: 2.75101 AU, Size: 188 km

Discovered by J. C. Watson on November 25, 1872, and named after the goddess of retribution in Greek mythology, Nemesis is a C-type main belt asteroid indicating a primitive carbonaceous composition. Nemesis is a very slow rotater with a period of 39 hours. The asteroid has a mean mass of 5.97x1018kg and a density of 1.82g/cm³.

 

 

Thalassa (moon of Neptune)

Discovered in 1989 in Voyager 2 images, Thalassa is the second innermost moon of Neptune. Thalassa is irregularly shaped (108x100x52 km) and shows no sign of geological activity. Thalassa's orbit lies below Neptune's synchronous orbit radius and is slowly spiraling down and will eventually impact or break up into a ring.

 

 

MOA-2011-BLG-291L b (in Sagittarius)

Mass: 0.057 xJup
SMA: 0.69 AU
Distance: 4400 parsec
Category: Neptunian
ESI: 0

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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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