Skywatching in 2024: Key Dates and Locations
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Skywatching in 2024: Key Dates and Locations

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Get ready for an exciting year of stargazing! If you’ve got celestial observation on your New Year’s to-do list, some fantastic opportunities are coming your way.

by TAUHID SHAH: January 21: Sunday: 23:58 PM| 2024 Updated.

Start off the year by looking up on January 17th. You’ll catch a beautiful sight as the Moon lines up with Jupiter in the high southwestern sky for a couple of evenings. Plus, after almost a year of being hard to spot, Mars is slowly getting brighter in the eastern sky just before sunrise.

For a moment on August 1st, the daytime sky grew dark along the path of a total solar eclipse. While watching the geocentric celestial event from Mongolia, photographer Miloslav Druckmuller recorded multiple images with two separate cameras as the Moon blocked the bright solar disk and darkened the sky. This final composition consists of 55 frames ranging in exposure time from 1/125 to 8 seconds. See the photo here. Credit: Miloslav Druckmuller (Brno University of Technology), Peter Aniol, Vojtech Rusin
For a moment on August 1st, the daytime sky grew dark along the path of a total solar eclipse. While watching the geocentric celestial event from Mongolia, photographer Miloslav Druckmuller recorded multiple images with two separate cameras as the Moon blocked the bright solar disk and darkened the sky. This final composition consists of 55 frames ranging in exposure time from 1/125 to 8 seconds. See the photo here.
Credit: Miloslav Druckmuller (Brno University of Technology), Peter Aniol, Vojtech Rusin

One of the most anticipated events for scientists and space enthusiasts is the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. This marks the end of an era for visible astronomical wonders in the contiguous United States until 2044. During the eclipse, you’ll see a stunning display of bright stars and planets.

On December 4, 2023 periodic Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks shared this telescopic field of view with Vega, alpha star of the northern constellation Lyra. Fifth brightest star in planet Earth’s night, Vega is some 25 light-years distant while the much fainter comet was about 21 light-minutes away. In recent months, outbursts have caused dramatic increases in brightness for Pons-Brooks though. Nicknamed the Devil Comet for its hornlike appearance, fans of interstellar spaceflight have also suggested the distorted shape of this large comet’s central coma looks like the Millenium Falcon. A Halley-type comet, 12P/Pons-Brooks last visited the inner Solar System in 1954. Its next perihelion passage or closest approach to the Sun will be April 21, 2024. That’s just two weeks after the April 8 total solar eclipse path crosses North America. But, highly inclined to the Solar System’s ecliptic plane, the orbit of periodic Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks will never cross the orbit of planet Earth. Credit: Dan Bartlett
On December 4, 2023, periodic Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks shared this telescopic field of view with Vega, the alpha star of the northern constellation Lyra. The fifth brightest star in planet Earth’s night, Vega is some 25 light-years distant while the much fainter comet is about 21 light-minutes away. In recent months, outbursts have caused dramatic increases in brightness for Pons-Brooks though. Nicknamed the Devil Comet for its hornlike appearance, fans of interstellar spaceflight have also suggested the distorted shape of this large comet’s central coma looks like the Millennium Falcon. A Halley-type comet, 12P/Pons-Brooks last visited the inner Solar System in 1954. Its next perihelion passage or closest approach to the Sun will be April 21, 2024. That’s just two weeks after the April 8 total solar eclipse path crosses North America. But, highly inclined to the Solar System’s ecliptic plane, the orbit of periodic Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks will never cross the orbit of planet Earth. Credit: Dan Bartlett

Bill Cooke, overseeing NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office in Alabama, is keeping a close eye on Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks. This comet is expected to get brighter over the next few months, possibly becoming visible without a telescope during the eclipse. Cooke says, “Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks had a burst of activity in July, and the sunlight has shaped its gaseous and dusty cloud into a horseshoe, giving it a kind of diabolical look with horns. The upcoming spring promises a sight that would have scared our ancestors – a solar eclipse turning day into night, accompanied by a ‘diabolical’ comet. Truly exciting!”

_Cooke also shares his top three meteor showers for 2024:

  1. Perseids in mid-August – A captivating meteor shower without interference from the moon.
  2. Eta Aquariids in early May – Expect an exceptional year with rates as high as one meteor per minute for Southern Hemisphere observers.
  3. Geminids in mid-December – A lot of bright meteors are anticipated, overshadowing any challenges from the moon._
The featured composite image was taken during the 2018 Perseids from the Poloniny Dark Sky Park in Slovakia. The dome of the observatory in the foreground is on the grounds of Kolonica Observatory. Although the comet dust particles travel parallel to each other, the resulting shower meteors clearly seem to radiate from a single point on the sky in the eponymous constellation Perseus. The radiant effect is due to perspective, as the parallel tracks appear to converge at a distance, like train tracks. Click here to see the photo. Credit: Petr Horálek / Institute of Physics in Opava
The featured composite image was taken during the 2018 Perseids from the Poloniny Dark Sky Park in Slovakia. The dome of the observatory in the foreground is on the grounds of Kolonica Observatory. Although the comet dust particles travel parallel to each other, the resulting shower meteors clearly seem to radiate from a single point in the sky in the eponymous constellation Perseus. The radiant effect is due to perspective, as the parallel tracks appear to converge at a distance, like train tracks. Click here to see the photo.  Credit: Petr Horálek / Institute of Physics in Opava

And this is just a glimpse of what the New Year has in store. Get ready for supermoons, lunar eclipses, planetary alignments, a new comet, and more celestial wonders that promise a lot of excitement.

All information is taken from blogs.nasa.gov

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