by APOD Robot » Tue Sep 25, 2018 4:05 am
Highlights of the North Autumn Sky
Explanation: What can you see in the night sky this season? The featured graphic gives a few highlights for Earth's northern hemisphere. Viewed as a clock face centered at the bottom, early (northern) autumn sky events fan out toward the left, while late autumn events are projected toward the right. Objects relatively close to
Earth are illustrated, in general, as nearer to the cartoon figure with the telescope at the bottom center -- although almost everything pictured can be
seen without a telescope. As happens during any season,
constellations appear the same year to year, and, as usual, the
Leonids meteor shower will peak in mid-November. Also as usual, the
International Space Station (ISS)
can be seen, at times, as a bright spot
drifting across the sky after sunset. Planets visible after sunset this autumn include
Jupiter and Mars, and during late autumn,
Saturn.
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