This week is great for star-watching, but the real reasons to faint after dark are stellar.
The intense heat in parts of the northern hemisphere makes garden nights the coolest component of the day, and in more of a tactic.
Last night I ventured around 10 p. m. , and from my position looking east, I saw incredible views, no wonder, then, that there have been various reports of flares, lightning and even mysterious bright drones. . . things are not what they seem. be – be.
Here’s a full explanation of what’s going on, what I’ve noticed and what you too can see any night this week or the next if you pass out, look up. . . and keep watching!
Where: in the sky from west to east.
When: Twilight, but precise schedules with NASA’s Spot The Station service
As reported through SpaceWeather. com, the International Space Station (ISS) is perceived twice its previous brightness. The orbiting lab with seven astronauts on board in June had a new solar panel called iROSA, installed through astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Thomas. Pesquet allegedly placed a ray of sunshine and redirected it to Earth.
It’s pretty easy to see the ISS this week as it passes through cities in North America and Europe at night. It takes between five and seven minutes to cross the sky and it looks like a constant and very bright white light.
Where: to the east
When: midnight
In a hiloy report from Scotland this week, a police officer allegedly feared being chased for miles via a drone. It turned out to be the planet Jupiter, which this month is much brighter and more prominent.
The “king of the planets” reaches his annual “opposition” on August 19, 2021 when the Earth passes between him and the Sun. Closer, bigger and brightest ever achieved in our evening sky, this geometry also means that Jupiter rises to the east at sunset and sets west at dawn.
It’s this week that rises earlier in the east, with Saturn less bright but still prominent in the upper right in the southeast.
Where: all the sky
When: two hours after sunset and sunrise
For those of us who live in the northern mid-latitudes, it’s satellite exploration season. The Sun doesn’t dive as low into the horizon at this time of year, so satellites in orbit are brighter and less difficult to see when they cross the afternoon sky when they catch the sun.
You’ll also notice that some of them shine with thousands of soft fixtures for a fraction of a moment when their solar panels or steel surfaces are momentarily softened. There are more than 4000 satellites in orbit around our planet.
Where: all the sky
When: July to August
If you see slowly moving “shooting star” ants (comet dust grains colliding with Earth’s environment) on the night of this week or the next, they come from the Delta Aquarid meteor shower, which is active from mid-July to the end of August. .
It seems that they come from the constellation of Aquarius, so they will travel regularly from the southeast. If you see some coming from the northeast (and moving a little faster), possibly the first Perseids, this meteor shower doesn’t really come. It started until the time of the week of August.
Aside from those potentially confusing views, this week’s night sky also hosts the beautiful view of a developing gibbous Moon and the stars of the “Summer Triangle. “Look east after dark and, over Jupiter and Saturn, you will see the bright stars Deneb and Vega on Altaïr below, forming a triangular shape. Let your eyes adjust to the darkness and you will see many stars in and around this domain of the sky, even a city polluted by light. You look at a sea from our own galaxy, the Milky Way. . .
The times, dates and instructions indicated apply to the northern mid-latitudes. For the most accurate and location-specific information, check out online planetariums like Stellarium and The Sky Live. where you are.
I wish you transparent skies and big eyes.
I’m an experienced science, generation and travel journalist and astronomer who writes about exploring the evening sky, solar and moon eclipses, the moon, star travel,
I am an experienced scientist, a generation and a journalist and astronomer who writes about night sky exploration, solar and moon eclipses, moon observation, astroviajes, astronomy and area exploration. I am the editor of WhenIsTheNextEclipse. com and the writer of “A Stargazing Program for Beginners: A Pocket Field Guide” (Springer, 2015), as well as many eclipse hunting guides.