Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

What’s Where Tonight May 13, 2009

What’s Where Tonight

May 13, 2009

Planets:

1:00 AM …    The Moon will rise in the Southeast and travel across the south until sunrise.

10:00 PM …. Saturn will be in the Southwest. It will be at about 50° above the

                        horizon. Saturn will set in the West at around 4:00 AM.

4:00 AM …    Jupiter will rise from the Southeast just about 20° above the horizon before it is washed out by the sunrise. It will be to the left of the Moon.

4:00 AM …    Venus will peak out over the horizon in the East and may be visable in the increasing light of the sunrise. Venus, Jupiter and the Moon will form a line from the East to the South.  

Stars and Constellations:

10:00 PM …  Orion will be in the West Southwest at around 10° – 20°.

10:00 PM …  Cassiopeia will be in the North. It will look like a “W”.  Polaris is the bright star above Cassiopeia

10:00 PM …..Capella, a very bright star, will be at about 20° to the Northwest.  

10:00 PM …  The two brightest stars of the Gemini Constellation, Castor & Pollux, will be West Northwest at about 30° above the horizon. Pollus will be on the left and Castor on the right.  

10:00 PM …  Procyon is a bright star in the South Southwest at about 50°. Procyon, Serius & Betelgeuse form the Winter Triangle. The winter triangle will not be visable in the summer sky.

10:00 PM …  If you follow the arc of the Big Dipper’s handle, almost directly overhead, and you will come to a bright star; its Arcturus in the North. If you continue the arc, you will come to Spica at about 10° aboue the horizon in the South Southeast

Current Events:

The summer triangle will be visable, in the East, after Midnight.

·        12:00 AM….. Find the Summer Triangle.

Vega (East Northeast at 45°), Deneb (Northeast at 30°) and Altari (East at 15°).