Amateur Astronomy Sky this Week for May 30 to June 5, 2010
Posted in Astronomy on June 5th, 2010 by admin
The asteroid Ceres passes through Messier 8 the lagoon nebula on Monday and Tuesday evening — photo op!
Only 3 hours and 17 minutes of astronomical darkness on Saturday evening. Not many mosquitoes yet fortunately.
Comet C2008 R1 (McNaught) is now about magnitude 7.8 and expected to brighten as it nears the Sun, may get to magnitude 2 according to some predictions. Take a look around 4:15 am.
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