What’s Up in the Nights Sky March 28th 2015
Now the Moon has moved inside the triangle of Jupiter, Pollux, and Procyon.
Now the Moon has moved inside the triangle of Jupiter, Pollux, and Procyon.
This evening the Moon forms a big kite shape with bright Jupiter far to its left, Pollux to the Moon’s upper left, and Procyon to its lower left
The first-quarter Moon shines above Orion and below Gemini this evening. If you have a dark enough sky (or binoculars), you can see that the Moon is in or near […]
The first-quarter Moon shines above Orion and below Gemini this evening. If you have a dark enough sky (or binoculars), you can see that the Moon is in or near […]
Look well to the left of the Moon this evening for Betelgeuse in the top of declining Orion. Look lower right of the Moon for similarly-colored Aldebaran, not quite as […]
The Moon shines amid the big, loose Hyades cluster for the Americas. The Moon occults Aldebaran for Alaska and northwestern Canada; see map and timetables of Aldebaran’s disappearance and reappearance.
Venus shines well to the Moon’s lower right this evening. Venus is brightest point of light at dusk. The second-brightest is Jupiter, much higher in the southeast. Look to the […]
Crescent Moon and Venus. Look west in twilight for the waxing crescent now posing with Venus, as shown here. At the times of twilight for North America, Venus is 3° […]
In twilight, look west well below Venus for a very thin waxing crescent Moon close to Mars, as shown here. The Moon is just one day old following yesterday’s solar […]
The Sun undergoes a total eclipse for parts of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. The partial phases sweep across a much larger area: all of Europe, North Africa, and […]