Skywatch: July is the month of March

The all-star game of the Major League Baseball will be played in Washington on July 17, and the cosmos presents a formidable global scale [19659005] Rocking a red uniform, March now rises in the southeast skies around 22:30, crosses south at 3:15 and sets the next morning after sunrise.

At the end of the month, the planet will go back to the southeast sky around 8:45 pm. and cross to the south around 1:20

Mars reaches the opposition – when Earth is directly between Mars and the sun think Mars "full" – July 27 to 5 o'clock in the morning According to the US Naval Observatory, the red planet reaches its closest point to the Earth on July 31. It's been 15 years since this planet is near and the planet will come closer again in 2035, according to the Royal. The Astronomical Society of Canada

As the month of July begins, our neighboring red planet will be an object of magnitude -2.2 (very bright), but it will dazzle the skygazers to a magnitude of -2.5. here the middle of the month. In the last days of July, take Mars at a brilliant magnitude of -2.8

The full moon of July 27 hangs out with the red planet. The gibbous moon approaches Mars on July 26 but seems to float near the planet the next day

As we are in the summer heat, the Earth reaches the aphelion (farthest point of the sun) on July 6 of his annual orbital trip. Sun. We will be only 94.5 million miles from the sun

Venus steals your attention in the evening skies. Find the mesmerizing planet in the west sky after sunset at magnitude -4.1 (bright enough). The young ribbon of a moon glides by Mercury low on the western horizon, on July 14, and then dances with Venus the next night.

Jupiter rises around 4 pm now and get up two hours earlier at the end of the month – and the big gaseous planet will be perfectly placed for skygazing backyard. It is bright at -2.3 magnitude in the evening sky southeast

Find Saturn in the southeast after dark, just above the shape of the teapot the constellation Sagittarius . It is an object of magnitude zero (bright), less brilliant than Jupiter. The ringed planet now rises around 8 pm and goes to bed around 5.30 am, but at the end of the month it rises to the southeast sky around 18h. and scenery at about 3.30 am

On July 13, a partial solar eclipse duly ascertained will take place between Australia and Antarctica. Observers in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia will be able to see the total lunar eclipse on July 27th. For those of us who can not attend directly to the deep lunar eclipse of copper – where we see the moon crossing the Earth 's shadow during the afternoon. Eastern Time Zone – catching the eclipse at goo.gl/C8bQxp.

Down-to-Earth events:

● July 2 – "Stars Tonight" abounds with planets to David M. Brown Planetarium, 1426 N. Quincy St., Arlington, adjacent to Washington-Lee High School. $ 19.30 5: friendsoftheplanetarium.org

● July 5 – "Pulsar Timing Arrays: Using the Galaxy to Detect Gravitational Waves", lecture by astrophysicist Elizabeth Ferrara at the Observatory of the # 39, University of Maryland, College Park. Enjoy the pleasures of the night sky through telescopes after. 21:00 www.astro.umd.edu/openhouse.

July 8 – "The evolution of the galaxy through cosmic time – The importance of the bars", a conference of the scientist of the NASA program, Kartik Sheth, at the Northern Virginia Astronomy Club meeting, 163 Research Hall, George Mason University. 19:00 novac.com

● July 14 – "STEAM Family Day: Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics of Aviation and Aeronautics. "Space" at Smithsonian's Stevenson Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly. Watch safely in the sun through a special telescope and learn how robots can travel to other planets. Parking $ 15. From 10 am to 3 pm airandspace.si.edu.

● July 14 – Fill your eyes with planets and stars at Exploring the Sky, organized by the National Parks Service and the National Capital Astronomers, at Rock Creek Park near the Center of nature. , in the field south of the military roads and Glover NW. 9:00 pm capitalastronomers.org

● July 20 – March 2018. Relive fun activities by discovering the red planet and talking with scientists conducting research on Mars. National Museum of Air and Space. From 10 am to 3 pm airandspace.si.edu.

● July 20 – "Balloon Astronomy", a conference of doctoral candidate Arnab Dhabal, at the Observatory of the University of Maryland, College Park. Sweep the sky through telescopes afterwards. 21:00 astro.umd.edu/openhouse.

Blaine Friedlander can be reached at [email protected] .

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