by APOD Robot » Fri Mar 20, 2020 4:05 am
Morning, Planets, Moon and Montreal
Explanation: Dawn's early light came to Montreal, northern planet Earth, on March 18, the day before
the vernal equinox. At the end of that
nearly equal night the Moon stands above a dense constellation of urban lights in this serene city and skyscape. Of course the Moon's waning crescent faces toward the rising Sun. Skygazers could easily spot bright Jupiter just above the Moon, close on the sky to a fainter Mars. Saturn, a telescopic favorite, is just a pinprick of light below and farther left of the closer conjunction of Moon, Jupiter and Mars. Near the ecliptic, even Mercury is rising along a line extended to the horizon from Jupiter and Saturn. The elusive inner planet is very close to the horizon though, and not quite visible in
this morning's sky.
[url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200320.html] [img]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_200320.jpg[/img] [size=150]Morning, Planets, Moon and Montreal[/size][/url]
[b] Explanation: [/b] Dawn's early light came to Montreal, northern planet Earth, on March 18, the day before [url=https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-vernal-or-spring-equinox]the vernal equinox[/url]. At the end of that [url=https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/749/seeing-equinoxes-and-solstices-from-space/]nearly equal night[/url] the Moon stands above a dense constellation of urban lights in this serene city and skyscape. Of course the Moon's waning crescent faces toward the rising Sun. Skygazers could easily spot bright Jupiter just above the Moon, close on the sky to a fainter Mars. Saturn, a telescopic favorite, is just a pinprick of light below and farther left of the closer conjunction of Moon, Jupiter and Mars. Near the ecliptic, even Mercury is rising along a line extended to the horizon from Jupiter and Saturn. The elusive inner planet is very close to the horizon though, and not quite visible in [url=https://earthsky.org/tonight/waning-crescent-moon-4-planets-before-sunrise]this morning's sky[/url].
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