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JD 2460691  DoY 15  WoY 03
🔼06:50
🔽16:56

TWILIGHT
05:21~18:25
Ecl Long 295.4°
in Sagittarius

Full
Age 16.13 d
Phase 163.3°
Ecl Long 132.1°
in Cancer

SSE

Observable comet count is 1169

Current exoplanet count is 5811

Current longitude II of the GRS is  66°

 

Today Monitor

Planet Oppositions

Mars: January 16, 2025
Jupiter: January 10, 2026
Saturn: September 21, 2025
Uranus: November 21, 2025
Neptune: September 23, 2025

 

Greatest Elongation of Venus

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

 

Greatest Elongation of Mercury

Morning: December 25, 2024 at 22.0°W
Evening: March 8, 2025 at 18.2°E
Morning: April 21, 2025 at 27.4°W
Evening: July 4, 2025 at 25.9°E
Morning: August 19, 2025 at 18.6°W
Evening: October 29, 2025 at 23.9°E
Morning: December 7, 2025 at 20.7°W
Evening: Febrary 19, 2026 at 18.1°E



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Super Moons (full) 2025

Wednesday, 5 November
Friday, 5 December

 

given for 00:00 UT

In Longitude (negative is western)

DateSizeAgeAnglePhase
23 Feb 202530.61'24.48-6.502°
24 Feb 202531.06'25.48-6.683°
25 Feb 202531.54'26.48-6.463°
22 Mar 202530.16'21.97-6.602°
23 Mar 202530.54'22.97-7.220°
24 Mar 202531.00'23.97-7.497°
25 Mar 202531.50'24.97-7.380°
26 Mar 202532.03'25.97-6.841°
04 Apr 202531.86'5.546.674°
05 Apr 202531.40'6.547.159°
06 Apr 202530.97'7.547.233°
07 Apr 202530.58'8.546.935°
19 Apr 202530.14'20.54-6.609°
20 Apr 202530.49'21.54-7.247°
21 Apr 202530.91'22.54-7.602°
22 Apr 202531.38'23.54-7.618°
23 Apr 202531.89'24.54-7.248°
24 Apr 202532.39'25.54-6.459°
02 May 202532.05'4.196.908°
03 May 202531.53'5.197.524°
04 May 202531.04'6.197.652°
05 May 202530.59'7.197.335°
06 May 202530.21'8.196.642°
18 May 202530.56'20.19-6.624°
19 May 202530.92'21.19-6.950°
20 May 202531.32'22.19-7.010°
21 May 202531.75'23.19-6.758°
30 May 202532.13'2.876.436°
31 May 202531.63'3.877.137°
01 Jun 202531.12'4.877.336°
02 Jun 202530.65'5.877.064°
29 Jun 202531.11'3.566.528°
02 Oct 202530.80'10.17-6.602°
03 Oct 202531.28'11.17-6.712°
04 Oct 202531.79'12.17-6.413°
13 Oct 202532.01'21.176.426°
14 Oct 202531.60'22.177.017°
15 Oct 202531.20'23.177.219°
16 Oct 202530.83'24.177.068°
17 Oct 202530.51'25.176.617°
29 Oct 202530.28'7.48-6.622°
30 Oct 202530.70'8.48-7.213°
31 Oct 202531.18'9.48-7.461°
01 Nov 202531.71'10.48-7.298°
02 Nov 202532.24'11.48-6.672°
10 Nov 202532.23'19.487.097°
11 Nov 202531.72'20.487.804°
12 Nov 202531.23'21.488.024°
13 Nov 202530.78'22.487.808°
14 Nov 202530.39'23.487.230°
26 Nov 202530.27'5.72-6.459°
27 Nov 202530.63'6.72-7.095°
28 Nov 202531.05'7.72-7.447°
29 Nov 202531.52'8.72-7.439°
30 Nov 202532.02'9.72-7.008°
08 Dec 202532.44'17.726.680°
09 Dec 202531.91'18.727.561°
10 Dec 202531.38'19.727.916°
11 Dec 202530.87'20.727.788°
12 Dec 202530.43'21.727.247°
26 Dec 202531.06'5.93-6.615°
27 Dec 202531.43'6.93-6.624°

 

In Latitude (negative is southern)

DateSizeAgeAnglePhase
12 Jan 202531.85'12.07-6.565°
13 Jan 202531.60'13.07-6.448°
26 Jan 202530.57'26.076.621°
27 Jan 202530.96'27.076.622°
08 Feb 202531.60'9.48-6.682°
09 Feb 202531.36'10.48-6.624°
22 Feb 202530.21'23.486.703°
23 Feb 202530.61'24.486.800°
24 Feb 202531.06'25.486.559°
07 Mar 202531.74'6.97-6.762°
08 Mar 202531.39'7.97-6.766°
09 Mar 202531.05'8.97-6.404°
21 Mar 202529.85'20.976.665°
22 Mar 202530.16'21.976.852°
23 Mar 202530.54'22.976.721°
03 Apr 202532.33'4.54-6.682°
04 Apr 202531.86'5.54-6.784°
05 Apr 202531.40'6.54-6.493°
17 Apr 202529.65'18.546.506°
18 Apr 202529.86'19.546.754°
19 Apr 202530.14'20.546.698°
30 Apr 202532.98'2.19-6.438°
01 May 202532.55'3.19-6.675°
02 May 202532.05'4.19-6.485°
15 May 202529.78'17.196.605°
16 May 202529.99'18.196.587°
28 May 202532.97'0.87-6.528°
29 May 202532.60'1.87-6.460°
11 Jun 202529.82'14.876.526°
12 Jun 202530.02'15.876.530°
24 Jun 202532.85'27.87-6.457°
25 Jun 202532.68'28.87-6.502°
08 Jul 202529.84'12.566.561°
09 Jul 202530.07'13.566.600°
21 Jul 202532.45'25.56-6.493°
22 Jul 202532.38'26.56-6.624°
04 Aug 202529.76'10.206.646°
05 Aug 202529.99'11.206.748°
06 Aug 202530.28'12.206.541°
17 Aug 202532.23'23.20-6.553°
18 Aug 202532.11'24.20-6.755°
19 Aug 202531.94'25.20-6.550°
31 Aug 202529.61'7.756.661°
01 Sep 202529.78'8.756.848°
02 Sep 202530.05'9.756.733°
13 Sep 202532.46'20.75-6.508°
14 Sep 202532.22'21.75-6.794°
15 Sep 202531.95'22.75-6.665°
27 Sep 202529.47'5.176.540°
28 Sep 202529.56'6.176.805°
29 Sep 202529.74'7.176.779°
30 Sep 202530.01'8.176.453°
11 Oct 202532.77'19.17-6.687°
12 Oct 202532.41'20.17-6.652°
25 Oct 202529.42'3.486.651°
26 Oct 202529.52'4.486.681°
27 Oct 202529.69'5.486.423°
07 Nov 202533.37'16.48-6.472°
08 Nov 202533.10'17.48-6.565°
21 Nov 202529.39'0.726.513°
22 Nov 202529.46'1.726.567°
05 Dec 202533.44'14.72-6.511°
18 Dec 202529.42'27.726.502°
19 Dec 202529.48'28.726.570°

Source: NASA/GSFC

Lunar Calendar 2024

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Latest Deepsky Image

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D5500, 50mm lens at f2.8, LPF, 34 x 60s, ISO1600.

 

Latest Lunar Image

C8, ASI290MM, IR642 filter (Jan 08, 2024).

 

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Celestron 8 x 0.63, D5500, no filters.

 

Lunar Impressions March 2024

Astronomy Picture of the Day

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Latest STScI News Release

NASA's Webb Reveals Intricate Layers of Interstellar Dust, Gas

A few dozen white stars, some with Webb’s signature 8-point diffraction spikes, on the black background of space. Tightly packed, red-orange filaments extend horizontally from upper left to lower right, with a bulging upward curve on the right that is closer to the top. The filaments resemble wood grain. The image is labeled August 19, 2024 at bottom left.

January 14, 2025

A few dozen white stars, some with Webb’s signature 8-point diffraction spikes, on the black background of space. Tightly packed, red-orange filaments extend horizontally from upper left to lower right, with a bulging upward curve on the right that is closer to the top. The filaments resemble wood grain. The image is labeled August 19, 2024 at bottom left.

Source: stsci.edu/news

Tonight's Sky

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Latest JWST News

Webb watches carbon-rich dust shells form, expand in star system

Observations of Wolf-Rayet 140 (MIRI Images, annotated)

13 January 2025

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have identified two stars responsible for generating carbon-rich dust a mere 5000 light-years away in our own Milky Way galaxy. As the massive stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 swing past one another on their elongated orbits, their winds collide and produce the carbon-rich dust. For a few months every eight years, the stars form a new shell of dust that expands outward — and may eventually go on to become part of stars that form elsewhere in our galaxy.


Source: esawebb.org

JWST Picture of the Month


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Source: esawebb.org

NASA Image of the Day

Best of 2024: Dinosaur Prepared to Safely Watch Solar Eclipse

A visitor takes a picture of a sculpture of an adult Alamosaurus wearing solar glasses outside of The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, Saturday, April 6, 2024, in Indianapolis, Ind. On Monday, April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the North American continent from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

Click to enlarge or show full screen

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:43 GMT


Source: www.nasa.gov

 

 

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ConstellationLeo Minor
Distance14.92 parsec
Magnitude5.38 vis.
Mass0.97 xSun
Radius1.24 xSun
Temperature5610°K
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Al Thalimain (16 Lam Aql) in Aql [HIP 93805]

Distance: 125 light-years, Magnitude: 3.43

Al Thalimain, Arabic for 'the two ostriches' is a star twice the size of the Sun, 3.1 times more massive and 55 times more luminous. The 160 million years young star lies about 5 degrees from the galactic plane and about 30 degrees from the line of sight to the Galactic Center and rotates at 103 km/s. Lambda shares its name 'Al Thalimain' with Iota Aquilae.

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GJ 169.1 A (Stein 2051) in Camelopadalis

Distance: 18 light-years, Magnitude: 11

Stein 2051 (Gliese 169.1, G 175-034, LHS 26/27) is a nearby binary star system, containing a red dwarf (component A) and a degenerated star, a white dwarf (component B), located in the constellation of Camelopardalis at about 18 light-years away. Stein 2051 B is the 6th nearest white dwarf after Sirius B, Procyon B, van Maanen's star, LP 145-141 and 40 Eridani B.

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M75 (Globular Cluster) in Sagittarius

Magnitude: 8.5

M75 is one of the most remote of of all globular clusters, positioned 67,500 light-years beyond the Milky Way's galactic center. Spanning 180 light-years across, it blazes with the brightness of 180,000 suns.

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Ara (southern), area rank: 63

Located south of Scorpio, Ara consists of eight rather dim stars. It can be seen in the south at northern latitudes below 20 degrees. Ara can be found looking from the tail of Scorpius downwards towards the horizon.

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153P/Ikeya-Zhang

Discovered in 2002, 153P/Ikeya-Zhang is a long-periodic comet with the longest known period (366.5 years) for returning comets. On March 18, 2002, the comet last passed perihelion and became the brightest comet since 1997 shining at 3.5 magnitudes. The comets aphelion distance is at over 100 AU away through the Kuiper Belt reaching into the innermost section of the Oort Cloud.

 

 

Sylvia (Asteroid)

Semi-major: 3.49320 AU, Size: 384 km

Asteroid 87 Sylvia, discovered in May 1866, has two orbiting satellites. They have been named Romulus (3.65 day orbit) and Remus (1.37 day orbit), the central characters of Rome's foundation myth and the children of the mythological Rhea Silvia. The mean size of Sylvia is 286 km.

 

 

Dione (moon of Saturn)

Nearly circular shaped Dione was discovered by astronomer Cassini back in 1682. It is more massive than all known moons smaller than itself combined, the third densest of Saturn's moons and largely composed of water ice. Its surface is cratered alongside ice cliffs and varied terrain.

 

 

HD 108341 b (in Musca)

Mass: 3.5 xJup
SMA: 2 AU
Period: 1129 days
Distance: 48.9102 parsec
Category: Cold Jovian
ESI: 0.231958

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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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