In this month's edition:
- Planetary Skylights: Venus, Mercury, Uranus, Mars and Jupiter
- Meteors: Quadrantids
- Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
- Earth reaches Perihelion
- January 2020 Sky Charts
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In this month's edition:
- Planetary Skylights: Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Uranus, Neptune, Mercury, Mars... and stilll Vesta.
- Meteors: Geminids, Ursids
- December 2019 Sky Charts
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In this month's edition:
- Transit of Merury
- Planetary Skylights: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Mars... and Vesta.
- Meteors: Leonics, South and North Taurids
- November 2019 Sky Charts
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In this month's edition:
- Planetary Skylights: Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury
- Comet: 2018 W2 (Africano)
- October 2019 Sky Charts
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In this month's edition:
- Planetary Skylights: Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury
- Comet: 2018 W2 (Africano)
- Autumnal Equinox 2019
- September 2019 Sky Charts
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In this month's edition:
- Planetary Skylights: Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury
- Meteors: Perseids
- August 2019 Sky Charts
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In this month's edition:
- Planetary Skylights: Earth's aphelion, Jupiter and Saturn
- Partial Luar Eclipse
- Meteors: Capri-Cornids, Alpha Cygnids and Delta-Aquarids
- July 2019 Sky Charts
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In this month's edition:
- Planetary Skylights: Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn
- Meteors: Ophiuchids, June Lyrids
- Summer Solstice
- Noctilucent Cloud
- June 2019 Sky Charts
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Chief star in Hydra - the traditional name Alphard is from the Arabic (al-fard), "The Solitary One", no doubt because there are no other bright stars in Alphard’s immediate vicinity. The European astronomer Tycho Brahe dubbed it Cor Hydrae, Latin for 'the heart of Hydra'. At magnitude +1.8 Alphard is a ‘bright’ second magnitude star and lies approximately 177 light years away. [Read more about Crossing the Line: objects of the month]
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In this month's edition:
- Planetary Skylights: Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn
- Ceres: at opposition
- Meteors: Aquarids
- May 2019 Sky Charts
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Moon Phases
Today's Astronomy Times
Whitby, 29 Mar 2023 - 19:44
| Sun | Rise | Set |
|---|---|---|
| Actual | 06:41 | 19:33 |
| Civil Twilight | 06:05 | 20:09 |
| Nautical Twilight | 05:21 | 20:53 |
| Astronomical Twilight | 04:33 | 21:40 |
| Moon | Rise | Set |
|---|---|---|
| 10:20 | 04:26 |