Volume 30 Issue 5
May 2024
May 2024
Month at a Glance:
This month the visible planets are mostly visible in the morning skies rising ahead of the Sun. Innermost planet, Mercury, will be visible but low above the eastern horizon. Further west, higher, are Mars and Staurn. Not seen are Venus and Jupiter, both of which are too close to the Sun to be seen.
On Mother's Day show Mom a diamond in the sky with a star from Leo the Lion, Canis Venatici the Hunting Dogs, Boötes the Herdsman, and Virgo the Harvest Maiden.
Click here for the month at a glance calendar.
What is this? "It's a prediction of when Lees Summit, MO, will have good weather for astronomical observing."
Click on the graphic to go to the Clear Sky web site.
This month the visible planets are mostly visible in the morning skies rising ahead of the Sun. Innermost planet, Mercury, will be visible but low above the eastern horizon. Further west, higher, are Mars and Staurn. Not seen are Venus and Jupiter, both of which are too close to the Sun to be seen.
On Mother's Day show Mom a diamond in the sky with a star from Leo the Lion, Canis Venatici the Hunting Dogs, Boötes the Herdsman, and Virgo the Harvest Maiden.
Click here for the month at a glance calendar.
What is this? "It's a prediction of when Lees Summit, MO, will have good weather for astronomical observing."
Click on the graphic to go to the Clear Sky web site.
Mercury shines but not so brightly in the morning skies this month and it also reaches its greatest western elongation, 26o, on the 9th.
Venus is too close to the Sun to be visible and reaches superior conjunction early next month.
Mars is visible in the morning skies rising about 2 hours before the Sun rises.
Dwarf Planet Ceres rises during the late evening but with an apparent magnitude between 7 and 8 the Dwarf Planet will only be visible using some optical asistance.
Jupiter will not be visible this month as it moves into solar conjunction on the 18th, will not be visible until later next month when it reappears in the morning skies.
Saturn rises aout 3 hours before the Sun rises and will be visible over the southeastern horizon,
Uranus reaches solar conjunction on the 13th so it will not be visible until later next month when it reappears in the morning skies.
