From ‘shooting stars’ from Halley’s Comet to an occultation of a bright star by the moon, here’s everything you need to know ...
Wicklow’s budding astro-photographers entering this year’s ‘Reach for the Stars’ astrophotography competition are hoping to ...
Today, it will also be possible to see a crescent moon, this time just 8%-lit, and now just beneath Saturn and Mars. The longer ... a valuable map of the occultation with exact timings (though ...
Catch a last glimpse of Orion and his hunting dogs, track wild ducks, and spot a dumbbell in the sky this week.
The Moon’s illumination is given at 12 P.M ... Europa is heading for an occultation, when it will pass behind Jupiter around 11 P.M. PDT — the only time zone where this event may be visible ...
Mars, Venus and ... It was as if the moon was swallowing up the sun. I contemplated with both mild amusement and a shudder the likely horror Earth’s earliest inhabitants must have felt when witnessing ...
Saturn, the brighter (magnitude +1.14) will shine sedately below Mars (magnitude +1.16), the two worlds being separated by just a half-degree, which is equal to the apparent width of the moon.