Feb 3: Comet C/2009 P1 Garradd is just 36’ S-SW of M92 in the Eastern sky before dawn
Feb 7: Mercury Superior Conjunction
Feb 8: Full Moon
Feb 8: The Full within 6 Degrees of Regulus.
Feb 13: A Waning Gibbous Moon forms triangle with Saturn and Spica after midnight.
Feb 14: Last Quarter Moon
Feb 16: A Crescent Moon [...]
The Chaandradina Celebration named “Chandrolsavam” by AASTRO Thiruvananthapuram, in association with Sarva Siksha abhiyan(SSA) and KSSTM succeeded in attracting a big mass of students.
The program was conducted at the seminar hall of Priyadarshini Planetarium, PMG, Thiruvananthapuram. Shri. Arul Jerald Prakash, Director, Kerala Science and Technology Museum, formally inaugurated the event. In his inaugural [...]
May 2: Jupiter and Mars just half degree apart, low in the East at the time of dawn
May 3: New Moon
May 7: Mercury and Venus just 1.5 degrees apart, low in the East at the time of dawn
May 7: Mercury Greatest Western Elongation
May 10: Jupiter, Venus and Mercury form a perfect triangle in the East [...]
January 2011 Sky Map
JAN 2: A Waning Crescent Moon within 5 degrees of Antares at the time of dawn
JAN 3-4: Quadrantid Meteor Shower will peak
JAN 4: Partial Solar Eclipse
JAN 4: New Moon
JAN 7: Saturn Western Quadrature
JAN 10: Venus Greatest Western Elongation
venus and mercury will be on greatest elongation on 10th Jan
JAN [...]
Nov 1: The Moon is 5 degrees S of Regulus in the East before dawn
Nov 4: A Waning Crescent Moon is about 7.5 degrees SE of Saturn in the East just before dawn
Nov 6 : New moon
Nov 13: First Quarter Moon
Nov 16: A Gibbous Moon is nearly 6.5 degrees away from Jupiter
Nov 17/18: The Leonids Meteor Shower [...]
2010 August sky
August 1: A Waning Gibbous Moon stands 11 degrees N-NE of Jupiter after midnight.Mars and Saturn are nearly 2 degrees apart in West just after sunset.
August 3: Last Quarter Moon.
August 5: The Moon (32% illuminated) stands within 4 degrees from Pleiades (M45) in east before dawn.Venus-Saturn-Mars forms a perfect triangle in [...]
On 12th February 2010, just before sunrise, you will see something
fantastic at the eastern horizon. You will see Mercury very close to the
Moon. They will be in Conjunction.Conjunction is a term normally used in positional astronomy.It means that as seen from same place,say earth, two celestial bodies appear near one another in the sky.The event also known [...]
