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Wednesday, January 11, 2023

 

Thursday January 12 to Thursday January 19

The Last Quarter Moon is Sunday January 15. Jupiter is easy to see as brightest object in the western evening sky aside from the Moon. Bright Mars, the red star Aldebaran and the Pleiades cluster form a triangle.  Venus climbs higher in the evening twilight, and soon will challenge Jupiter for brightest evening object when it leaves the twilight. Saturn sinks towards the twilight and Venus.

The Last Quarter Moon is Sunday January 15.

Evening sky on Saturday, January 14 as seen from Adelaide at 21:16 ACDST, (45 minutes after sunset, click to embiggen). Venus is low above the horizon coming closer to Saturn ahead of a close approach later in the Month.You will need a low, unobstructed horizon to see Venus clearly.





   

Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at the equivalent local time (45 minutes after sunset).

 

Evening sky on Saturday, January 14 as seen from Adelaide at 22:37 ACDST, 90 minutes after sunset (click to embiggen). Mars, the red star Aldebaran and and the Pleiades cluster form a triangle.Jupiter is seen low in the west


 

Mars was at opposition, when was at its biggest and brightest as seen from Earth, on December the 8th, but is still an excellent sight. The insets are the telescopic views of Mars and Jupiter at this time.


Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at the equivalent local time (90 minutes after sunset). 


 
Whole sky on Saturday, January 14 as seen from Adelaide at 22:37 ACDST, 90 minutes after sunset (click to embiggen). Jupiter and Mars are visible spanning the sky.


Orion the Hunter, is prominent along with Taurus the Bull and Sirius in the northern sky.

Between the bright star Canopus and the Southern Cross are another wealth of binocular objects to discover.

 

 

  

 Elsewhere in Australia will see a similar view at the equivalent time (90 minutes after sunset).


Mercury is lost in the twilight.

Venus climbs higher in the twilight coming closer to Satun.

Mars the red star Aldebaran and the Pleiades cluster form a triangle.

Jupiter is now sinking to the west in the late evening sky. Jupiter is visible most of the evening (setting just before midnight) and is the brightest object in the north-west to western sky.

Saturn Saturn is low in the west heading towards Venus and sets shortly just before the sky is fully dark.

 
Printable PDF maps of the Eastern sky at 10 pm AEDST, Western sky at 10 pm AEDST. For further details and more information on what's up in the sky, see Southern Skywatch.


 

Star Map via Virtual sky. Use your mouse to scroll around and press 8 when your pointer is in the map to set to the current time.

Cloud cover predictions can be found at SkippySky.

Here is the near-real time satellite view of the clouds (day and night) http://satview.bom.gov.au/



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