11 May: Moon near M35 star cluster at 8h UT (evening sky).

9 May: Mercury at greatest elongation west at 21h UT (26° from Sun, morning sky). Mag. 0.5.

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9 May: Moon near the Pleiades at 1h UT (evening sky).

8 May: New Moon at 3:23 UT (now). Start of lunation 1254.

A great time to do some evening stargazing. Download The Evening Sky Map (PDF) from skymaps.com/tesm/ and enjoy exploring the Universe using just yours eyes, binoculars or a telescope!
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A bright comet is coming! Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) is heading for a close encounter with the Sun and then Earth later this year. The #comet is slowly brightening as predicted and is expected to be easily visible to the unaided eye in late September and early October…

6 May: Moon near Mercury at 6h UT (26° from Sun, morning sky). Mag. 0.7.
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The Evening Sky Map -- free monthly star map & calendar of celestial events: skymaps.com/tesm/

5 May: Moon near Mars at 3h UT (morning sky). Mag. 1.1. Occultation visible from Madagascar.

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5 May: Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks. Most active for 7 days around this date. Associated with Comet Halley. Very fast, bright meteors, up to 40 per hour. Best seen from the tropics and southern hemisphere a few hours before dawn.
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4 May: Moon, Mars and Neptune within circle 4.1° diameter at 19h UT (44° from Sun, morning sky). Mags. 1.1 and 7.9.
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The Evening Sky Map -- free monthly star map & calendar of celestial events: skymaps.com/tesm/

4 May: Moon near Saturn at 0h UT (morning sky). Mag. 1.2.
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The Evening Sky Map -- free monthly star map & calendar of celestial events: skymaps.com/tesm/

1 May: Last Quarter Moon at 11:27 UT (now).

This Moon phase marks the start of dark moonless evening skies for the next 7 to 10 days. Download a copy of The Evening Sky Map (PDF) from skymaps.com/tesm/ and enjoy an evening under the stars!
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In less than perfect conditions on a cold and windy evening, a Seestar S50 smart telescope was used to capture & display images of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks. The image shows the comet's distorted ion tail (blue) and a broad dust tail (yellow).

The sky conditions were so bad that the…

29 April: Mars 0.04° SE of Neptune at 5h UT (morning sky). Mags. 1.1 and 7.9.
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26 April: Moon near Antares at 18h UT (morning sky). Occultation visible from the Middle East, southern India and Indonesia.
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23 April: Full Moon at 23:50 UT (now).

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23 April: Moon near Spica at 5h UT (evening sky).

Spica is the brightest star in Virgo and is located near the ecliptic making for regular close encounters with the Moon. #stargazing #Astronomy #Virgo

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22 million years ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a giant star exploded. This massive stellar explosion -- now known as 2024ggi -- occurred around the time when the great southern land of Gondwana had broken up resulting in Australia slowly separating from Antarctica and South…