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Lovely evening planet. If you're observing in the first week of March, it and Jupiter are the best planets tonight. Venus close to Jupiter in the first week. Moon close on 23 and 24 March. This program will even tell you about galaxies, clusters, comets, and asteroids in addition to the Moon and planets. Well placed evening planet in Aquarius. A gibbous Moon is nearby on the evenings of 23 and 24 October. There are lots of resources about C/2022 E3 (ZTF) out there –I recommend googling to see the latest headlines if you want to spot it as it sails by. March 21 – Ceres at Opposition Jupiter is one of the brightest objects in the night sky, ranking just behind the Moon and Venus. You can see it with the naked eye, though you’ll of course have better views through binoculars or a telescope.
Low evening planet, which is best at the start of June when crossing M44, the Beehive Cluster. But the view is compromised by twilight. Now, I’ll go through each planet in turn and explain when you’ll have the best observing conditions. Above the horizon already at sunset and setting a couple of hours later, Venus and Jupiter will be all but unmissable as the bright points of light in the southwest in the early evening sky. Take a look for yourself! Uranus is just observable this month as it was in conjunction with the Sun on 5 th May. It rises in the east just as the sky darkens. Uranus will be best seen later is the night as it rises higher in the sky. It will be best at about 04:00 and just before sunrise.
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South of Triangulum is Aries, the Ram, the current home of the very bright planet Jupiter and significantly dimmer Uranus. July 14 – September 1, Perseids: The Perseids constitute one of the best-known and most enjoyable meteor showers in the Northern Hemisphere. The night of August 11-12 is projected to be the peak in 2023, but you can also try to spot meteors in the days before and after. Low morning planet. Waning crescent Moon 0.6o to the north of Jupiter on 14 June at 06:00 BST (05:00 UT). In 2023 the earliest sunrise and latest sunset both occur in June. Credit: Pete Lawrence
April 20, total solar eclipse: Look out for this eclipse if you live in South/East Asia, or Australia. On Monday, Nov. 13 Uranus will reach opposition — the night of the year when it is closest to Earth at a distance of 1.74 billion miles, 2.78 billion km, or 155 light-minutes. (Image credit: Chris Vaughan/Starry Night)
Saturn is the first planet to rise over the eastern horizon at about 18:45 so it will be seen low in the south eastern sky as soon as it gets dark. Saturn was at opposition on 27 th August. This was the night when Saturn was due south at midnight 24:00 GMT (01:00 BST) and at its highest point above the southern horizon. The best time to observe Saturn this month will be 23:00. Jupiter reaches opposition when it can be seen shining at an impressive mag. –2.8 in southern Aries. If you're observing Jupiter throughout October and November 2023, it's one. ofthe best planets tonight. Jupiter is very bright (mag. -2.8) and well placed in October in southern Aries. A small partial lunar eclipse occurs on the evening of 28 October 2023, the extreme southern part of the Moon being clipped by Earth’s dark, umbral shadow between 20:35-21:53 BST (19:35-20:53 UT). Credit: Pete Lawrence Well positioned evening planet, which is low in the west as twilight darkens. Mars is near Venus at the start of July. The Leonid meteor shower reaches its peak, with maximum activity expected this morning under favourable conditions (ZHR 15).
The northeastern sky on November evenings hosts the bright constellations of Perseus and W-shaped Cassiopeia, with the very bright star Capella positioned below them. For those not familiar, the Messier catalog includes 110 deep space objects; the Messier Marathon is an unofficial event where astronomers attempt to see all 110 events in a single night. All 110 events are only visible in the sky between late Februaryand early April, and it’s obviously critical to have no light interference from the Moon. Impressively bright morning planet, visible against dark skies at the end of the month, rising four hours before sunrise. New Books• Star Atlases• Planispheres• Getting Started• Observing Guides• Telescope Books• Kids Books• Sky MythsRising just after 22:00 UT, the 53%-lit waning gibbous Moon sits 3° north of the Beehive Cluster, M44. The planet will be setting in the west before 11 p.m. local time at month's end, but the earlier sunsets of autumn will deliver several hours of excellent evening viewing all month long. On Nov. 4, Saturn's westward retrograde motion through the stars of central Aquarius will slow to a stop as it completes a retrograde loop that began in June. It will spend the rest of November ramping up its eastward trek and slightly decreasing its 24-degree separation from Neptune to its east.
You can find out more about these moon events by reading our guide on how to see Jupiter's Galilean moons. A telescope view of Jupiter from 01:12-03:32 UT on 4 November will show Europa and its shadow in transit. Parade of the Planets by Martin Lewis, shortlisted in Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2018 Cepheus and Orion While you wouldn’t think it, there are lots of terms that seem to be new in the field of astronomy – at least to me. One term I had never heard before this year was “Hybrid Solar Eclipse,” which is apparently how you can describe the solar eclipse happening on April 19th.
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Morning planet southeast of Circlet asterism in Pisces. Well placed at the end of the month. September 2023 November’s night sky displays summer, autumn and winter stars, as long as you’re prepared to stay up all night.
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