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Sky Experience. With our monthly Doctor Sky Events calendar of
what you can see. No matter whether you live in
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Sunday Eastern daylighttime with great information as you tell us
from the realms of astronomy, space, aviation, and weather. Let's
settle in and get set for one of the most
interesting months of the calendar year, July twenty twenty six.
Let's be in with the moon. Moon, of course, is
an object of intrigue. Whether you're a beginner or well
seasoned observer, lots to see. The month opens up as
we find out that the moon is weaning. It moves
on to last quarter moon, which usually rises around midnight
on the seventh of July. Moon then continues to move
on as it moves on to its closest position for
the month, that's on the thirteenth. We call that perigy.
If you remember, the Moon's orbit is not perfectly circular,
it is elliptically shaped. New Moon the dark of the moon,
and this is going to be a very interesting segue
when we talk a little bit more about other things
other than planets that you can see in the sky.
The new moon, the dark of the moon is a
great time to look for the elusive Milky Way in
the darkest of skies. More on that later. Then, if
you're a very keen eyed observer, you could look into
the west northwest just after sunset by about the fifteenth
but the thinnest sliver of moonlight as it waxes. Then
the moon continues on the first quarter. But how about
this another outstanding, beautiful full moon, this one on the
morning hours of July to twenty ninth, ten thirty six
am Eastern daylight time. This moon officially known as the
full book Buck Moon and over the full thunder Moon,
and they're probably a whole bunch of other appropriate names.
But how about thunder moon. As the monsoon continues to
increase here in Arizona and thunderstorm season is well under way,
let's talk a little bit more about other things that
are happening. Did you know that the Earth was farthest
from the Sun that on the sixth a little over
ninety four million miles. Hard to believe when temperatures in
the northern hemisphere are at record breaking levels. Here's something
interesting that you can take a look at. On the
ninth of July. If you look just at the beautiful
planet Venus, which by the way, is so bright you
can't miss it. In the northwest, maybe a pair of
Binacatus might suffyce, or maybe the naked eye Venus and
a star cold Regulus in Leo. The star Regulus is
the brightest star in the constellation Leo, the Lion, some
seventy seven light years away. Why mention it, because Venus
and Regulus will be slightly less than one degree apart,
and I'm sure you can see that with the naked
eye if you indeed have some clear skyes. Let's talk
with you about some other amazing things that are happening
in our heavens. The moon will be near the Red
God of War the planet Mars on the morning of
the eleventh. The planet Mercury, which adorned the western and
northwestern skies throughout early portions of June and mid June,
is now moving into inferior conjunction, meaning it transitions of
the evening to the morning sky. Early morning sky watchers,
the Red God of War is within five degrees of
the brilliant star and taras the eye of the bull
of star cold Aldeboron that's sixty five years away. It's
also interesting once the moon waxes again, we find out
that on the seventeenth, you can't miss it, the crescent moon.
What a beautiful set. You want to take some amazing
images with your smartphone or even more professional cameras. We
find out that the moon is near Venus on the seventeenth,
the moon glides past a brilliant star called Spika, which
is in the constellation Virgo the Virgin. On the twenty first,
and by the way, if you look at that star
in Virgo, that star Spika is about two hundred and
fifty light years away. So you got it. And the
Declaration of Independence was inked and signed by the fifty
six signatures, the light of that star thereabouts left. Then
it just got here. Now isn't that amazing? What happens
in the world of astronomy. On the twenty fourth, the moon,
as it continues to race on toward its full phase,
we find it very close to the beautiful star in
Scorpius Ontaris, which means the rival of Mars and in
some other locations around the world. The Moon will cover
up three eclipse the star on Tarians. For those of
you that don't like the fact that Pluto was a dwarf,
Pluto is at its best on the twenty sixth, But
good luck with that because you'll need a massive telescope
to see it, or a moderate sized telescope with a
lot of luck. How about this on the twenty ninth,
the planet Jupiter that you've been seeing with that beautiful
romantic duet. Remember back in early June when who knows
who courted who? Jupiter was courting Venus or was a
Venus courting Jupiter. Well, the planet Jupiter moves into the conjunction,
that is the solar conjunction. It transitions from the evening
to the morning sky and barely if you can see it,
there is a meteor show or called the southern delta aquarence.
Now that's a shower that would be visible in the
southeast sky best around the thirty or the thirty first,
But then again we're dealing with full moon or just
post full moon conditions. Now, let's also talk about something
interesting I mentioned I mentioned before the dark of the moon,
the new moon. If you're on vacation, let's say, or
somewhere where their lights are diminished. Take a look right
around mid month southern sky, right after maybe about an
hour or two after sunset, look due south. You will
see the para. Binoculars will help the most incredible star
fields of the Milky Way through the zodiac signs of Scorpius,
the Scorpion, and then the nuclear core of our galaxy,
the constellation Sagittarius. And let me say, let me tell you, folks,
if you have the opportunity to do this in dark
skies with the pair of binoculars, you're going to remember
this event. Because many people say that literally without using
too many out of the world you know, of this
world words, it literally is an astronomic experience. Take a
star chart and learn the different groups of stars that
are there. Also many clusters, many globular clusters. These are
stars that maybe have two or three hundred thousand stars
compacted together. One of them right in that teapot area
of Sagittarius, up near the top of it, would be
a group of stars called Messia twenty two. What's that
in English language, It's a massive globular cluster. You see
it in the night sky with the darkness and the
beautiful milky way, you will be most impressed. Questions that
you may have for me email me Dr Sky at
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