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  Night Sky Calendar - Southern Hemisphere
July 2008
Celestial Object
 


04 - Earth at aphelion (farthest from Sun) at 8h UT. The Sun - Earth distance
0000is 1.01675 a.u. or about 152.1 million km.
06 - Moon near Mars at 16h UT (evening sky). Mag. +1.7.
16 - Moon near Saturn at 20h UT (evening sky). Mag. +0.8.
19 - Jupiter at opposition at 8h UT (mag. -2.7). Bes time to observe the largest
0000planet in in the solar system.
10 - Mars 0.64 from Saturn at 16h UT (47° from Sun, evening sky) Mag.+1.7 & +0.8.
17 - Moon near Jupiter at 14h UT (midnight sky). Mag. -2.7.
18 - Full Moon at 7:59 UT. The full moon of July is called the "Thunder Moon"
0000or "Hay Moon" .
29 - Mercury at superior conjunction at 20h UT (not visible). Passes into the evening sky.

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The photo was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and shows a detail of the nebula. This close-up shows a dense cloud of dust and gas, a stellar nursery full of embryonic stars. This cloud is about 8 light-years away from the nebula's central star, not shown in this picture. Located in Sagitarius, the nebula's name means "divided into three lobes".
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007

 Clearest Ever Image From Space 



The Cat's Eye Nebula as imaged conventionally by the Palomar 200in telescope (l) and with the Lucky Camera (r)

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