Looking up: The moon and planets

There is a big moon in the sky but still lots to see that does not require a very dark sky or a telescope. Even city lights will not bother your viewing of the planets Saturn and Jupiter. In fact, you can use the moon to help you locate them. A full moon is the best time to see the rays that emanate from craters.     CPL

 

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Friday, July 12

• The Moon this evening forms a triangle with Jupiter to its lower left and Antares under it, as shown above.

• Jupiter’s Great Red Spot should cross the planet’s central meridian around 11:08 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. For the full schedule of this month’s Red Spot transits, good worldwide, see the July Sky & Telescope, page 50.

Saturday, July 13

• The Moon and Jupiter cross the sky together tonight, as shown above. During this month’s pairup of the two, Jupiter is 1,700 times farther than the Moon. In actuality the Moon is roughly the size of Jupiter’s own four Galilean moons, mere pinpoints as seen in a small scope or with good, steadily braced binoculars. This evening for North America, all four appear on Jupiter’s celestial west side relatively close to the planet.

Sunday, July 14

• Now the Moon shines between Jupiter and Saturn, as shown above. Notice how steadily the two planets glow compared to twinkly bright stars.

Monday, July 15

• The Moon accompanies Saturn across the sky tonight, as shown above. They appear just 2° or 3° apart for North America. Saturn is currently 3,400 times farther than the Moon — twice as distant as Jupiter.

Tuesday, July 16

• Full Moon (exact at 5:38 p.m. EDT). A partial lunar eclipse is visible from most of the world’s continents except North America. Map, timetable, and full details.

For us in North America, the full Moon shines on just as normal as can be, about 10° east of Saturn.

Wednesday, July 17

• High in the northwest after dark, the Big Dipper has started its long, slow scoop toward the right. Lower in the north-northeast, meanwhile, the upright W of Cassiopeia has slowly begun to tilt and climb.

Thursday, July 18

• Week by week, bright Arcturus is losing some of its height in the west after dark.

Look for Spica to the lower left of Arcturus by about three fists at arm’s length. Lower right of Arcturus by the same amount is Denebola, the tailtip of Leo. These three stars form an almost perfect equilateral triangle.

Jupiter and Saturn at nightfall, mid-July 2019

All this week Jupiter hangs upper left of Antares, and Saturn hangs upper left of the Sagittarius Teapot.

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Friday, July 19

• The tail of Scorpius is low due south after dark, as shown above. How low depends on how far north or south you live: the farther south, the higher.

Look for the two stars especially close together in the tail. These are Lambda and fainter Upsilon Scorpii, known as the Cat’s Eyes. They’re canted at an angle; the cat is tilting his head and winking.

The Cat’s Eyes point to the right by nearly a fist-width toward Mu Scorpii, a much tighter pair (shown as a single dot on the map) known as the Little Cat’s Eyes. They’re oriented almost exactly the same way as Lambda and Upsilon. Are your eyes sharp enough to resolve the Mu pair without using binoculars? Not many people can!

Saturday, July 20

• Scorpius is sometimes called “the Orion of Summer” for its brightness, its blue-white giant stars, and its prominent red supergiant (Antares in the case of Scorpius, Betelgeuse for Orion). But Scorpius passes a lot lower across the south than Orion does, for those of us at mid-northern latitudes. That means it has only one really good evening month: July.

Catch Scorpius due south just after dark now, before it starts to tilt lower toward the southwest. It’s full of deep-sky objects to hunt with a sky atlas and binoculars or a telescope, before the waning gibbous Moon rises later tonight to light the sky.

• Once the Moon does rise in the east-southeast, contemplate the moment 50 years ago today when a man took the first step onto another world. The sunset terminator tonight is approaching Tranquillity Base, and everything there must be casting long shadows.