The Moon will perform one on Thursday night with Jupiter and Saturn.
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Many people stuck at night have thought of giving a lot of good views with people stuck at home. No. Leonid meteor shower To Halloween blue moon, Skyways has deteriorated recently. And here’s another goodie: Go out on Thursday night to form a subtle triangle of Moon, Saturn and Jupiter. The crescent moon will appear in a south-westerly direction as the sky darkens, but the other two will appear shortly thereafter. Jupiter should make a look after sunset, and a little later Saturn.
“The best solar eclipse is about 30 minutes after local sunset when the moon and planets are visible enough in the sky,” says Jeffrey Hunt, an astronomy educator and former planetarium director. He writes about the view on his site, while the curves line up.
But if you miss that particular time, it’s still worth putting your foot out. Hunt says the view will still be good for about four and a half hours of your local sunset. Saturn appears after a while because it is slower than Jupiter, and bright stars appear in the sky after sunset, while dim stars appear later.
And you don’t need special devices. Hunt says that “binoculars or small telescopes, such as bird observation space, lunar craters (and) will show Jupiter’s moon. If the telescope is kept stationary, some of Jupiter’s larger moons are visible. A small telescope will show a sign that Saturn is moving . “
If you miss the Thursday night show, wait for more skyscrapers in December. Hunt notes that there is another group of moons and a Jupiter-Saturn pair on December 16, when the planets will be together.
It is just five days before the highly anticipated event, the Great Conjugation, which will take place on December 21st. No, not a conjunction junction – Hunt explains that when the moon, or a planet, has the same spatial longitude as any other celestial body, we call it a conjunction. Jupiter passes Saturn together every 19.6 years, so this event is already rare, but the event of December 21 will be the closest connection between the two since 1623.
