Sky Guide February 2017

Sky Guide February 2017

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

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

  • A last chance look at Mercury in the morning sky
  • Mars a few degrees from Venus
  • Jupiter in Virgo
  • Saturn in the early morning sky

Next up is the return of a couple of comets to our observing tick list:

  • Comet 45P at its best on the 11th February in Hercules
  • Comet 2P Encke returns to our skies in the constellation Pisces

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

  • Ralph – the Rosette Nebula and open cluster NGC2244 in the constellation Monoceros
  • Paul – open cluster M93 in Pupis
  • Jeni – supernova remnant, Messier 1 – the Crab Nebula - in Taurus

And we finish this sky guide with February's moon phases, a conjunction with the Hyades Cluster on the 5th and a penumbral eclipse on 10th/11th February.

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