#SCARIEST ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA FULL#
This weekend will host the full moon and Venus at its greatest eastern elongation.
During the upcoming nights, be on the lookout for Venus and the bright full moon, Mars nestled in the Beehive Cluster, the still-shining M101 supernova, and early-morning Jupiter. The temperature on these nights will be rather comfortable, hovering in the 60s and 70s. There might be a few straggler clouds, but don’t let those ruin an entire night of stargazing or astrophotography. This week will have sporadic clear nights – It looks like Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights are looking promising. This clears the night sky of the moon’s glow that would otherwise wash out the faint dust lanes of the Milky Way or deep-sky nebulae and star clusters.
That means the moon is waning, or getting “smaller”, and rising later every night. And most of those folks are starting to get excited because the moon hits its third quarter phase this Saturday. Most avid stargazers and astrophotographers are acutely aware of where the moon is in the sky, and what phase it is in. The temperature will be in the low-60s and mid-50s in the hours following sunset so be sure to bring a jacket to keep warm and keep an eye out for dew forming on your binoculars or telescope lenses.īe on the lookout this week for the third quarter moon, Venus passing through the Beehive Cluster, a moon-Jupiter conjunction, and the moon passing near the Pleiades.
The best outlook for clear nights is this Saturday, Monday, and Thursday. This week’s forecast seems to oscillate between rainy nights and clear nights.
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