Sky Guide January  2017
AWESOME ASTRONOMY29 Joulu 2016

Sky Guide January 2017

What to look out, and up, for in January.

Our highlights of this month's skies with the planets on offer to observers and imagers:

  • Venus at greatest eastern elongation
  • Mars a few degrees from Venus
  • Jupiter in Virgo
  • Saturn & Mercury in the morning sky
  • Next up is the other solar system wonders of note in January:
  • The Quadrantids meteor shower peaking on 3-4th January with a ZHR of around 40
  • The largest asteroid, Vesta, at opposition passing through Cancer into Gemini

Then we each take a deep sky pick from our list of favourites for this time of year:

  • Jen – M33, spiral galaxy in the constellation Triangulum
  • Paul – NGC 2903, barred spiral galaxy in Leo
  • Ralph – Messier 35, open cluster in Gemini

And we finish this sky guide with January's moon phases.

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