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Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium and
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How Are You Beating The Heat? |
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Summer features warm and occasionally hot weather, like the heat wave of July 5-8. Share your ideas and ingenious ways that you "beat the heat" when the thermometer soars.... |
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EYE ON THE NIGHT SKY |
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The planets Venus - brightest and to the right, Mars - much fainter to the upper left, and Saturn - slightly brighter than Mars and farther left - will slowly merge closer together, low in the western skies through early August.
Questions about the cosmos? Post your comment on the Night Sky blog. |
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ALMANAC |
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Sunrise for July 30th was at 5:36, followed by a sunset at 8:17; the length of day 14 hours and 41 minutes.
Moon: The waning Gibbous Moon slips over to Jupiter by Friday evening, above and to the left, and then Saturday evening, the 31st, the waning Gibbous rises just a few minutes before Jupiter and well to its left, near 10:25 PM EDT.
Planets:
Evening:
The gathering of planets in the evening is underway, with Mars and Saturn getting very close together, all the while drifting lower toward Venus, the best viewing between 9:00 and 9:15 PM EDT.
Mars and Saturn – Mars slides below, and then to the lower left of Saturn through this week. Mars dips below the horizon at 10:20, and Saturn near 10:30 PM EDT.
Venus - Venus continues to appear in the west-northwest, starting between 8:45 and 9:00 while the twilight is still fairly bright. It’ll be much easier to see between 9:15 and 9:30, but it will be getting rather low, and setting about 10:00 PM EDT.
Mercury - The nearest planet to the Sun will be barely visible to dedicated observers, very low in the west-northwest near 8:50 PM EDT. A pair of binoculars and a very level western horizon are musts. As an extra treat, it is possible to see the star Regulus just above Mercury on the 27th. By the weekend, Mercury is a hand-width above the level horizon at 8:45 PM EDT.
Morning:
Jupiter – Jupiter rises just as Saturn is setting near 10:35 PM EDT, climbing almost half-way up in the southern skies as twilight brightens near 5:00 AM. This fall, Jupiter will be magnificent.
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