4/12/2024 0 Comments Celestial events 2024 ukGet ready for 100 “shooting stars” each hour in a dark sky-and mark your calendars for a camping expedition! After a few years under moonlit skies the northern hemisphere’s most popular meteor shower’s peak occurs in 2023 when the moon has set. Although far from its best (opposition in December 2022), it we'll have astroid photographers out in force to take an image of the red planet among the blue stars.Ģ023 will be a great year for moonless meteor showers. In a pair of binoculars you can see about 12 bright blue stars, but on Jthey will be joined by the red planet. ![]() Also called M 44, this open cluster of stars is around 520 light years away in the constellation of cancer, the crab. One of the best sites in a pair of binoculars in spring and summer is the beehive cluster. It will be visible from parts of the Americas and Europe, though only easily to those with motorized telescopes. Since the Moon’s orbital path around the Earth is slanted only 5º to Earth’s orbit around the Sun-and the plane of the solar system-that’s bound to happen now and again. Just before dawn on a waning, 5%-lit crescent Moon will move across Jupiter. ![]() ![]() (Photo by Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Anadolu Agency via Getty Images 4. The crescent moon and Jupiter are seen in a rare planetary alignment over Van province of Turkey on.
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