JeffSFO wrote:Tonight (March 20) I was using the Google Sky Map app to check something but then noticed that I missed quite a line-up just after sunset...
vikkyvik wrote:Crescent Moon and Venus will be about 4 degrees apart tonight.
vikkyvik wrote:vikkyvik wrote:Crescent Moon and Venus will be about 4 degrees apart tonight.
I must say, that's quite a striking conjunction, even though they're not THAT close.
No photos from me, as it's too windy for decent tripod shots.
KFLLCFII wrote:Jupiter's moon Ganymede was faintly visible tonight with the naked eye, so I decided to grab the DSLR. I wasn't sure which one it was at first, but after a brief web search, I came across this website which tracks the current positions of the four brightest moons.
Here's my grab on the top, zoomed to a couple hundred percent and then rotated and marked, and below it is the current layout as depicted in the aforementioned site:
vikkyvik wrote:On their journey toward their approaching conjunction, Venus and Jupiter were about 2 degrees apart last night. Moons Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede also visible:
vikkyvik wrote:Unfortunately it's currently cloudy in the western sky here. Dammit, tonight was the night I was hoping to get photos, with Jupiter's moons nicely spread out.
ShanwickOceanic wrote:How cool is this?! Earth and Moon both eclipsing the sun at the same time:
http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_up ... _id=117504
vikkyvik wrote:Say what? How does that happen?
ShanwickOceanic wrote:vikkyvik wrote:Say what? How does that happen?
You put a camera in space and hope it all lines up:
http://sdoisgo.blogspot.co.at/2015/09/a ... rtant.html
The supermoon lunar eclipse will be visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa, western Asia and the eastern Pacific Ocean on the night of Sunday, Sept. 27.
ShanwickOceanic wrote:The supermoon lunar eclipse will be visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa, western Asia and the eastern Pacific Ocean on the night of Sunday, Sept. 27.
http://www.space.com/30586-supermoon-lu ... hotos.html
vikkyvik wrote:I just saw an incredibly bright, slow-moving meteor. Bright greenish, with a faint orange-ish tail. Moving slow enough that the guy I was talking to said "hey, do you see that?" and I had time to look up and still catch it for a second before it disappeared behind the apartment building across the street.