The Sky This Week, 2012 February 5 - 12 http://cmt1.blogspot.com

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The rocket's red glare finds Orion still there!
A sounding rocket launched from NASA's
Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia'seastern shore
released a pair of lithium cannisters 75 miles up
on 2012 January 29, providing this unusual view in attach image.
The Moon is a thin crescent for most of the week, playing
hide-and-seek with skywatchers during the twilight hours. New Moon
occurs onthe 10th at 2:20 am Eastern Standard Time. You should be able
to catch a glimpse of her in the glow of dawn well east of the ruddy
star Antares on the morning of the 6th. If you have a clear view to
the southeast, try to spot her on the next few mornings. She will
return to the evening sky on the evening of the 11th. Look for a
pencil-thin sliver of a waxing crescent over thewest-southwest horizon
about 45 minutes after sunset. If you have a pair of binoculars and a
clear view to the horizon, look for the bright glimmer of fleet
Mercury about five degrees below the Moon at this time. If it's very
clear you may also spot the dimmer glow of Mars just over two degrees
below Mercury.
The Moon's absence from the hours of darkness mean that this is
another good week to contribute an observation to the year's second "
Globe At Night " observing campaign. This is a great activity
tointroduce friends, family, and neighbors to the stars while at the
same time contributing meaningful data to science. I managed to gather
some observations last weekon a couple of exceptionally clear and cold
nights when the sky was too turbulent for planetary imaging but
otherwise very transparent. For most of us under urban or suburban
skies the observation should only take a few minutes since city
streetlighting robs us of our night vision, but if you're out away
from the city let your eyes adapt to the dark for about 20 minutes
before you count stars in Orion. You'll be rewarded for your patience
by a view of one of the most colorful areas of the entire sky.
The evening twilight sky is well worth watching this week as the
elusive planet Mercury begins his best evening apparition for the
year. Since Mercury, the smallest ofthe major planets, orbits closest
to the Sun, he is only visible for a couple of weeks around times of
morning and evening "elongations" from Old Sol. These elongations are
quite varied due to Mercury's orbitalparameters, but they never occur
more than about 28 degrees from the Sun's disc, and these
"extreme"ones heavily favor southern hemisphere observers. This
elongation peaks on the 16th, whenMercury is 18 degrees from the Sun,
but his orbit is nearly perpendicular to the horizon, enabling us to
get a decent view. Tofind him, start panning the west-southwest
horizon with a pair of binoculars between 30 to 45 minutes after
sunset. By the evening of the 8th Mercury should be about five degrees
high, shining at magnitude minus-1, almost as bright as the star
Sirius. As an added bonus on this evening the fleet planet will be
less than half a degree from fainter Mars, who is still lingering in
the twilight glow. Mercury and Mars will rapidly part company over the
next several evenings as Mercury climbs higher into the sky. By the
evening of the 11th he will be about 10 degrees above the horizon and
about five degrees below the slender crescent Moon. Mercury will stay
in this part of the sky for another week or so, but he will start to
fade dramatically as he starts his turn back toward the Sun.
Jupiter now stands on the meridian as evening twilight ends. The early
evening hours present the best timeto look at the giant planet if you
have a small telescope. You don't need much optical aid to see the
four bright moons discovered by Galileo. These objects, which attend
the planet like four obedient stars, are a diverse set of worlds
intheir own right. Two of them, Ganymede and Callisto, are comparable
to the planet Mercury insize, while Io and Europa are similarto our
Moon. The moons undergo a variety of interesting phenomena with the
giant planet, sometimes tracking across his face dragging a shadow in
their wake, or passing behind the planet and disappearing into his
massive shadow. They are anever-ending source of entertainment to
watch.
Saturn straddles the meridian as morning twilight begins to brighten
the eastern horizon. The planet's signature rings have been steadily
opening to our line of sight for the past few years, and they are now
tipped a generous 20 degrees in ourdirection. This offers a splendid
view in the telescope which only gets better with increasing aperture.
A good six-inch instrument should show the famous Cassini Division in
the rings if the air is steady, and the planet should be surrounded by
up to a half-dozenof his small icy moons.

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