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In the Sky this Week – April 12, 2022

By Robert Trembley  |  12 Apr 2022  |  Sacred Space Astronomy

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This entry is part 227 of 253 in the series In the Sky This Week

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Feature|The Sky|The Moon|The Sun|Asteroids|Fireballs|The Solar System|Spacecraft News|Exoplanets|Aurora|Light Pollution|The Universe|

Back from Vacation in Dark Skies

My wife and I are back from a much needed vacation; I was simply astounded by the stars in southern Texas! We stayed a couple days in the inflated plastic bubbles at Basecamp Terlingua – waking up and seeing the night sky through the plastic dome was simply fantastic! Outside our domes was a hot tub, and 4 Adirondack chairs set up to look right at the Milky Way.

I got to show the Moon and the Orion nebula to a family with kids staying in the domes next door – the parents were more enthusiastic than the kids were! I have so missed doing that!

The day before the bubbles we visited McDonald Observatory – which was VERY COOL! Connie took copious notes and pictures – I’ll write a separate post about that. The evening star party at the McDonald Observatory was VERY similar to what the Warren Astronomical Society has done in the past.

The solar observing was done in an auditorium using a remote-controlled telescope – which Connie and I found a little disappointing after having looked through some very nice solar telescopes, but with COVID still a thing, and the number of people in the auditorium, it’s understandable. The presenter covered a LOT of the same topics I cover in my Sun presentation, but I have many (many) more images and videos.

Visiting the telescopes in the domes on top of the hill was also VERY COOL! The MONSTER 11-meter Hobby-Eberly Telescope had a niche for the public to get up close and personal; it’s difficult to grasp the scale of the telescope’s multi-segmented mirror – it’s so large!

The Sky - In the Sky

Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn continue to appear in the southeastern predawn sky all week.

East-southeastern sky before sunrise
Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn appear in the east-southeastern sky before sunrise all week. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

By next week, the planets will all be a bit higher at 6:00 AM, and the Sun will be just a bit brighter… and my parrots will be waking up just a bit earlier every day…

East-southeastern sky before sunrise
Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn appear in the east-southeastern sky before sunrise on April 18th. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

The Moon appears near the star Spica in the southeastern sky after sunset on April 15th & 16th.

Southeastern sky after sunset
The Moon appears near the star Spica in the southeastern sky after sunset on April 15th. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.
Southeastern sky after sunset
The Moon appears near the star Spica in the southeastern sky after sunset on April 16th. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

The Moon appears near the star Regulus high in the southwestern sky after midnight on April 12th & 13th.

The Moon appears near the star Regulus high in the southwestern sky after midnight on April 12th. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.
Southwestern sky after midnight
The Moon appears near the star Regulus high in the southwestern sky after midnight on April 13th. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

The Moon - In the Sky
  • The Moon is a Waxing Gibbous – visible to the southeast in early evening, and up for most of the night.
  • The Full Moon occurs on Easter Sunday – rising at sunset, visible high in the sky around midnight, and visible all night.
  • After April 17th, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous – rising after sunset, visible high in the sky after midnight, and visible to the southwest after sunrise.
Moon
The Moon from April 12-18, 2022. Visualizations by Ernie Wright / NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio.

If you click on the Moon image above, or click this link, you will go to NASA’s Moon Phase and Libration, 2022 page – it will show you what the Moon looks like right now. If you click the image on that page, you will download a high-rez TIFF image annotated with the names of prominent features – helpful for logging your lunar observations!

Moon News

You sure don’t want that Moon dust anywhere near your body!

Spring cleaning is underway, even beyond Earth! Dust can harm hardware & astronaut health, and it's difficult to remove in space. That’s why we develop tech like this “Moon Duster,” which uses electron beams to remove regolith (lunar dust) from spacesuits. https://t.co/A4LsoaZ4ie pic.twitter.com/yEnubwX9Mh

— NASA Space Science (@NASASpaceSci) April 5, 2022

The Sun - In the Sky

All the monsters have gone away – the very large sunspots from the last couple weeks have rotated out of view, or vanished altogether. The Sun has two named spots, and one of those will soon rotate out of view.

Spaceweather.com says: “A CME is heading for Earth (see 304 angstrom video below). NOAA forecasters say that G2-class geomagnetic storms are possible when it arrives on April 14th. During such storms, auroras can seen as far south as, e.g., New York and Idaho (geomagnetic latitude 55 degrees).”

The Sun on April 12, 2022. Credit: SDO/HMI

The Sun seen in 193 angstroms on April 11th.

Lots of coronal loop activity – you can see the corona react to a couple flares. A large coronal hole rotating towards the middle of the Sun’s face.

 

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/dailymov/2022/04/11/20220411_1024_0193.mp4

The Sun seen in 304 angstroms on April 11th.

BOOM! One HUGE flare with a CME and a whole BUNCH of little flares all over the place!

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/dailymov/2022/04/11/20220411_1024_0304.mp4

Videos courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams.
You can view the Sun in near real-time, in multiple frequencies here: SDO-The Sun Now.
You can create your own time-lapse movies of the Sun here: AIA/HMI Browse Data.
You can browse all the SDO images of the Sun from 2010 to the present here: Browse SDO archive.


Amateur Solar Astrophotography

Sun
Sun, April 12, 2022. Credit: Roman Vaňúr
Sun
Sun, April 12, 2022. Credit: Roman Vaňúr

Solar Corona

Solar wind speed is 468.2 km/sec ▲ with a density of 10.6 protons/cm3 ▲▲ at 1925 UT.

Sun
SOHO LASCO C2 Latest Image

Click here to see a near real-time animation of the corona and solar wind from the Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).

Sun News:

Our space telescopes are constantly observing our closest star, the Sun. The Sun is ever changing, especially as it transitions from solar minimum to maximum. See what our telescopes capture as this cycle progresses. pic.twitter.com/2VUT17x4f4

— NASA Sun & Space (@NASASun) April 12, 2022

Asteroids - In the Sky
  • Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) discovered this month: 108, this year: 946 (+145), all time: 28,874 (+146)
  • Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs): 2260 (+5 updated 2022-04-12)
  • Total Minor Planets discovered (MPC): 1,194,161 (+28,296 updated 2022-04-12)
  • Total Minor Planets discovered (NASA): 1,113,527 (updated 2021-08-17) – This value has not changed for months.

Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters:

Asteroid Date(UT) Miss Distance Velocity (km/s) Diameter (m)
363599 2022-Apr-12 19.3 LD 24.5 218
2022 GU2 2022-Apr-12 4.8 LD 11.8 18
2022 GD3 2022-Apr-12 8.1 LD 8.6 40
2022 GP3 2022-Apr-13 17.1 LD 7.5 17
2022 GM4 2022-Apr-13 1.5 LD 23.1 13
2022 GS3 2022-Apr-13 2.8 LD 9.7 51
2022 GL4 2022-Apr-14 2.9 LD 13.6 15
2022 FR3 2022-Apr-14 18.3 LD 8.3 92
2022 GR2 2022-Apr-16 10.4 LD 26.6 71
2022 GL3 2022-Apr-16 2.1 LD 5.4 13
2022 GX4 2022-Apr-17 4.3 LD 16.4 25
2020 TQ6 2022-Apr-18 13.4 LD 15.4 43
2022 GJ4 2022-Apr-18 3.8 LD 15.5 19
2022 FN3 2022-Apr-19 15.1 LD 6.3 39
2022 GU3 2022-Apr-22 4.5 LD 8.7 25
2017 UR2 2022-Apr-22 19.4 LD 9.3 10
2020 VN1 2022-Apr-25 19.3 LD 2.3 9
418135 2022-Apr-28 8.5 LD 10.4 466
2017 XO2 2022-May-01 18.8 LD 12.4 125
2017 HG1 2022-May-04 18.2 LD 6 11
467460 2022-May-09 14.9 LD 11.3 513
2019 JE 2022-May-11 4.9 LD 7.2 20
2012 UX68 2022-May-15 2.8 LD 8.2 54
388945 2022-May-15 15 LD 8.2 290
2013 UX 2022-May-17 16.8 LD 16.3 141
2021 WY 2022-May-18 16.9 LD 9 65
7335 2022-May-27 10.5 LD 13.1 1058
2021 KO2 2022-May-30 3.1 LD 14.8 9
2020 DA4 2022-Jun-01 5.5 LD 8.9 26
2021 GT2 2022-Jun-06 9.5 LD 7.5 50
2018 LU2 2022-Jun-09 14.8 LD 10.7 16
Notes: LD means “Lunar Distance.” 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also equals 0.00256 AU. MAG is the visual magnitude of the asteroid on the date of closest approach.

Click here to see NASA’s interactive “Eyes on Asteroids” close approach watch

Asteroid News:

https://twitter.com/AstroBalrog/status/1513854567053729798

WGSBN Bulletin Volume 2, #5 (2022 Apr 11) – with 59 newly named asteroids:
https://www.wgsbn-iau.org/files/Bulletins/V002/WGSBNBull_V002_005.pdf

Fireballs - In the Sky

On April 12, 2022, the NASA All Sky Fireball Network reported 18 fireballs!
(18 sporadics)

In this diagram of the inner solar system, all of the fireball orbits intersect at a single point–Earth. The orbits are color-coded by velocity, from slow (red) to fast (blue). Credit: SpaceWeather.com

Fireball News:

Saturday's UK #meteorite fall as seen from #Eastbourne. @UKMeteorNetwork calculate the rock was about the same size as #Winchcombe and landed in the ocean just off the Isle of Wight. (AllSky7 camera from @amsmeteors and @UK_Fireball) pic.twitter.com/K7aXoHzpdl

— Jim Rowe (@JimRoweUK) April 10, 2022

If you see a bright meteor or a fireball, please REPORT IT to the American Meteor Society and the International Meteor Organization!

The Solar System - In the Sky

Position of the planets & several spacecraft in the inner solar system on April 129th:

Inner Solar System
Top-down view of the inner solar system on April 12, 2022. Credit: Bob Trembley / NASA Eyes on the Solar System

Position of the planets in the middle solar system – April 2022:

Middle Solar System
Top-down view of the middle solar system on April 12, 2022. Credit: Bob Trembley / NASA Eyes on the Solar System

Position of the planets in the outer solar system first half of 2022:

Outer Solar System
Top-down view of the outer solar system on Mar. 15, 2022. Credit: Bob Trembley / NASA Eyes on the Solar System

Solar System News

All – what is happening with Neptune? 🔵

A new study reports an unexpected, globally averaged drop of about 8 °C between 2003 and 2018.

Read more at: https://t.co/JpvLE84PON pic.twitter.com/LBA4GzaYzW

— Thomas Zurbuchen (@Dr_ThomasZ) April 11, 2022

Spacecraft News - In the Sky

James Webb Space Telescope

Click to see JWST on NASA’s Solar System Orrery

You bet we’re turning it up: Our @NASA’s Curious Universe audio mini-series on the James Webb Space Telescope has been nominated for @TheWebbyAwards!

🔊 Hear us out on how you can help put the Webb in #Webby: https://t.co/0n5vNrFbOL pic.twitter.com/Zm3ikGXpzT

— NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) April 6, 2022

Mars Helicopter

 

 

Yesterday, the National Aeronautic Association awarded the #MarsHelicopter team the prestigious Collier Trophy🏆 With this award, the pioneering rotorcraft cements its place in aerospace history as it’s about to embark on a second year of Martian flights. https://t.co/IyxFy9TEnu pic.twitter.com/nk5kBnkY0a

— NASA JPL (@NASAJPL) April 6, 2022

Self-Driving Mode

Click to see Perseverance on NASA’s Solar System Orrery

Still winding my way across the plain to the delta up ahead using my self-driving mode. I’m making good progress, and even hit a new record: 520 meters (0.32 miles) over three consecutive days.

More on self-driving mode: pic.twitter.com/Y8WMNtVie5

— NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) April 8, 2022

HiRISE - Beautiful Mars

Click to see Mars on NASA’s Solar System Orrery

HiRISE 3D: Possible Layering on a Crater Floor in Protonilus Mensae

Fine layering is suggested in larger Context Camera images, so HiRISE is here to get a high resolution look.https://t.co/cbMAbqapBd

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona#Mars #science pic.twitter.com/x8Vcp8qK3t

— HiRISE: Beautiful Mars (NASA) (@HiRISE) April 12, 2022

International Space Station

Click to see the ISS on NASA’s Solar System Orrery

A busy week for the Exp 67 and Ax-1 crews began with packing a U.S. cargo ship, exploring life sciences and holoportation, and preparing for upcoming Russian spacewalks. https://t.co/11u0uJJ5VJ

— International Space Station (@Space_Station) April 11, 2022

Lunar Gateway

A supply chain among the stars🌠

Deep Space Logistics, an element of Gateway, is responsible for developing the commercial supply chain that will support exploration & science around the @NASAMoon, just like NASA and its partners have done in low-Earth orbit with @Space_Station. pic.twitter.com/0rfQlNXgGb

— Gateway Lunar Space Station (@NASA_Gateway) April 11, 2022

Europa Clipper

The first image from one of our spacecraft's high-res cameras reveals...people on Earth. Thanks in part to ongoing testing on the ground, our mission will be able send home the sharpest pictures ever of Jupiter's photogenic moon Europa. Details: https://t.co/rhtdzWuVjb pic.twitter.com/x5O4dxEeFX

— NASA Europa Clipper (@EuropaClipper) April 7, 2022

Mission To Psyche

A new ship, almost ready to join the fleet! Slated for launch in August, #MissionToPsyche will join @NASA's other asteroid explorers already in space, including #OSIRISREx, #DARTMission, and #LucyMission.

More: https://t.co/jUGEd0yYXU 🚀🪨 https://t.co/B80wtNmDiC pic.twitter.com/NbluQv3ivi

— NASA Solar System (@NASASolarSystem) April 12, 2022

CO2

420.19 ppm #CO2

📈 420.19 ppm #CO2 in the atmosphere for the 14th week of 2022 📈 Up from 419.62 a year ago 📈 @NOAA Mauna Loa data: https://t.co/CkSjvjkBfQ 📈 https://t.co/DpFGQoYEwb updates: https://t.co/idlRE62qB1 📈 Add a weekly CO2 tracker to your site: https://t.co/NnwgaBoCCa 📈 pic.twitter.com/EaEe0ydNfA

— CO2_Earth (@CO2_earth) April 11, 2022

Climate

Yet another extreme precipitation event sent rivers out of their banks, inundating coastal towns and prompting evacuations in eastern Australia. https://t.co/m83GrCijLr pic.twitter.com/5KZyki43y8

— NASA Earth (@NASAEarth) April 11, 2022

See a list of current NASA missions here: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions?mission_status=current

Exoplanets - In the Sky

ex·o·plan·et /ˈeksōˌplanət/, noun: a planet orbiting a star other than the Sun.

All Exoplanets 5009 (+4)
Confirmed Planets Discovered by Kepler 2709
Kepler Project Candidates Yet To Be Confirmed 2057
Confirmed Planets Discovered by K2 537
K2 Candidates Yet To Be Confirmed 958 (-8)
Confirmed Planets Discovered by TESS 204 (+1)
TESS Project Candidates Integrated into Archive (2022-04-08 13:00:01) 5488
Current date TESS Project Candidates at ExoFOP 5488
TESS Candidates Yet To Be Confirmed 3695 (-5)
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive

* Confirmed Planets Discovered by TESS refers to the number planets that have been published in the refereed astronomical literature.
* TESS Project Candidates refers to the total number of transit-like events that appear to be astrophysical in origin, including false positives as identified by the TESS Project.
* TESS Project Candidates Yet To Be Confirmed refers to the number of TESS Project Candidates that have not yet been dispositioned as a Confirmed Planet or False Positive.

Exoplanet News:

This is a little like if Jupiter were orbiting our Sun as close as Mercury does. https://t.co/QJtAtZqNEv

— NASA Solar System (@NASASolarSystem) April 11, 2022

https://twitter.com/AstroBalrog/status/1513290736887910401
Aurora - In the Sky

STEVE!

STEVE. Taken by Harlan Thomas on April 9, 2022 @ Station Flats, Kananaskis County

STEVE (Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement) is a purple band of light that appears during some geomagnetic storms. It looks like an aurora, but it is not. The purple glow is caused by hot (3000°C) ribbons of gas flowing through Earth’s magnetosphere at speeds exceeding 6 km/s (13,000 mph).

“This was the brightest STEVE that I have seen,” says Thomas. “It was so bright it overcame a 22-degree halo around the moon!” – SpaceWeather.com

SpaceWeather.com Realtime Aurora Gallery: https://spaceweathergallery.com/aurora_gallery.html

Latest Aurora Oval Forecast

Aurora – 30 Minute forecast. Credit: NOAA. Click image to see northern and southern hemisphere Aurora forecast.
Light Pollution - In the Sky
https://twitter.com/AstroBalrog/status/1513892849611423755
  • Visit an International Dark Sky Park: https://www.darksky.org/our-work/conservation/idsp/parks/
  • If you live in Michigan, visit the Michigan Dark Skies site: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/darkskies/
The Universe - In the Sky

NASA STEM

NASA has chosen two students as winners of the Lunabotics Junior Contest, a national competition for K-12 students featuring the agency’s Artemis missions. https://t.co/ut4GuInkcR #NASA #EPDC #STEM #TXST pic.twitter.com/YhuI5gQv7B

— NASA EPDC (@NASAEPDC) April 8, 2022

Messier Tour: M12 – The Gumball Globular

M12
Messier 12 (M12), the Gumball-Globular. Credit: Hewholooks at wikipedia.org

Messier 12 (M12), also known as the Gumball Globular, is a globular star cluster located in the constellation Ophiuchus. The Gumball Globular has an apparent magnitude of 7.68 and lies at a distance of 15,700 light years from Earth. It has the designation NGC 6218 in the New General Catalogue.

Messier 12 is invisible to the naked eye, but can be seen with binoculars in good conditions, with clear dark skies and no light pollution. Stars in the cluster can be resolved with an 8-inch or larger telescope. A 10-inch instrument reveals the core with a diameter of 3 arc minutes and a halo of stars stretching across an area of 10 arc minutes. – messier-objects.com

M12
Artist’s depiction of the positions of M12 (seen above the disk of the Milky Way) and the Sun. Credit: Bob Trembley / SpaceEngine.

Messier 12 has a Shapley-Sawyer classification of IX, which means that its member stars are concentrated relatively loosely toward the centre for a globular cluster. Compared to its neighbour Messier 10 (class VII), M12 is notably less dense toward the central region. – messier-objects.com

When I was framing the image below, I noticed M10 was in my field of view, and well defined, so it must be “close.”

M12
Artist’s depiction of the position of the Sun seen from M12. Credit: Bob Trembley / SpaceEngine.

I moved the view so that I was equidistant from the two clusters for this image. I then zoomed to M12, and chose M10 – the distance shown was about 1800 light years. I wonder how much the two clusters are gravitationally affecting each other?

M12 and M10
M10 and M12 are about 1800 light years from each other. Credit: Bob Trembley / SpaceEngine.
Click here to view M12 in the Worldwide Telescope web client

Cover Image: Messier 12. Credit: Hewholooks at wikipedia.org

Messier Object List: [Link]

Software Apps used for this post:

NASA Eyes on the Solar System: an immersive 3D solar system and space mission simulator – free for the PC /MAC.
Stellarium: a free web-based planetarium app. It’s a great tool for planning observing sessions.
SpaceEngine – Explore the universe in 3D and VR!
Worldwide Telescope – operated by the American Astronomical Society (AAS).

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Clear skies, stay safe, be well, and look up!

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