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Heute Nacht auf einen Blick

Abnehmende Sichel 21%
Dunkelheit: 18:15 – 05:44 (11 h 28 m)

Planeten-Highlights

Jupiter mag -2.6 · 60° alt · Gemini Details
GRF-Transit heute Nacht:
Europa Bedeckung endet
Io Schattendurchgang beginnt
Io Durchgang beginnt
Io Schattendurchgang endet

Für Einsteiger (mit bloßem Auge)

M41
Little Beehive Cluster Open Cluster
mag 4.5

At 21:00 look low in the south

Canis Major
M42
Great Orion Nebula Nebula
mag 4.0

At 21:00 look halfway up in the south

Orion
M31
Andromeda Galaxy Galaxy
mag 3.4

At 21:00 look halfway up in the northwest

Andromeda

Fernglasziele

U Ori
Variable Star
mag 5.4

At 21:00 look high in the south

Ori
M35
Shoe-Buckle Cluster Open Cluster
mag 5.3

At 21:00 look high in the south

Gemini
M81
Bode's Galaxy Galaxy
mag 6.9

At 21:00 look high in the northeast

Ursa Major

Kleine Teleskope (3–6 Zoll)

Castor
HIP 36850; Alpha Gem; 66 Gem Double Star
mag 2.0

At 21:00 look high in the southeast

Gem
NGC 2252
Open Cluster
mag 8.0

At 21:00 look halfway up in the south

Mon
M43
De Mairan's Nebula Nebula
mag 9.0

At 21:00 look halfway up in the south

Orion
C7
NGC 2403 Galaxy
mag 8.4

At 21:00 look near the zenith

Camelopardalis
3 Gem
Variable Star
mag 5.8

At 21:00 look high in the south

Gem

Große Teleskope (8–12 Zoll)

RX And
Variable Star
mag 10.2

At 21:00 look halfway up in the northwest

And
NGC 2192
Open Cluster
mag 11.0

At 21:00 look near the zenith

Aur
NGC 2440
Planetary Nebula
mag 11.0

At 21:00 look low in the south

Pup
M65
Leo Triplet Galaxy
mag 9.3

At 21:00 look low in the east

Leo
NGC 2146
Galaxy
mag 10.5

At 21:00 look high in the north

Cam

Wochenausblick

Do Fr Sa So Mo Di Mi
🌘 21% 🌘 13% 🌘 7% 🌑 3% 🌑 0% 🌑 0% 🌑 2%

NASA Astronomiebild des Tages

The Bay of Rainbows

Dark, smooth regions that cover the Moon's familiar face are called by Latin names for oceans and seas. That naming convention is historical, though it may seem a little ironic to denizens of the space age who recognize the Moon as a mostly dry and airless world, and the smooth, dark areas as lava-flooded impact basins. For example, this telescopic lunar vista, looks over the expanse of the northwestern Mare Imbrium, or Sea of Rains and into the Sinus Iridum, the Bay of Rainbows. Ringed by the Jura Mountains (montes), the bay is about 250 kilometers across. Seen after local sunrise, the mountains form part of the Sinus Iridum impact crater wall. Their rugged sunlit arc is bounded at the top by Cape (promontorium) Laplace reaching nearly 3,000 meters above the bay's surface. At the bottom of the arc is Cape Heraclides, depicted by Giovanni Cassini in his 1679 telescope-based drawings mapping the moon, as a moon maiden seen in profile with long, flowing hair.

Bildnachweis: Olaf Filzinger — APOD ist ein Service der NASA und Michigan Tech. U.

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