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In the Sky this Week – August 30, 2022

By Robert Trembley  |  30 Aug 2022  |  Sacred Space Astronomy

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This entry is part 241 of 244 in the series In the Sky This Week

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

Astronomy at the Beach 2022 on the VO Calendar

I’ve added Michigan’s Astronomy at the Beach event, and the remote presentations I’m giving during it to the calendar on the VO website.

Astronomy at the Beach
Setting up for Astronomy at the Beach. Credit: Doug Bock

I will not be attending the live event – I will be hosting a couple Zoom sessions during the event:

  • A Tour of the Solar System – I’ll visit all the usual places, and several unusual ones in the solar system and beyond using SpaceEngine. Note: I want to give this presentation to a LOT of classrooms this year!
    [Friday Sept. 16 6:00 PM EST] [Saturday Sept. 17 6:00 PM EST]
  • A Mission to Mars – I’ll design, build, launch, fly and land a probe to Mars (Er, Duna) in Kerbal Space Program. Along the way, I’ll show some basic orbital mechanics. Hilarity is a given.
    [Friday Sept. 16 7:00 PM EST] [Saturday Sept. 17 7:00 PM EST]
The Sky - In the Sky

Morning: Venus appears low above the eastern horizon before dawn.

Eastern horizon before dawn
The planet Venus appears low above the eastern horizon before dawn. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

Morning: Mars and the Pleiades star cluster appear nearly overhead in the predawn sky.

The sky overhead before dawn
Mars and the Pleiades appear nearly overhead in the predawn sky. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

Morning: Jupiter rises in the east, and Saturn appears above the horizon in the southeast after sunset

East-southeastern sky after sunset
Jupiter rises in the east, and Saturn appears above the horizon in the southeast after sunset. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

Morning: Jupiter appears high in the southwestern sky before dawn; Saturn sets in the west-southwestern sky shortly after 5:00 AM.

Southwestern horizon before dawn
Jupiter appears high above the southwestern horizon before dawn. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

Evening: A thin crescent Moon appears above the west-southwestern horizon on August 30th and 31st.

West-southwestern horizon after sunset
A thin crescent Moon appears above the west-southwestern horizon on August 30 and 31 after sunset.

Evening: The crescent Moon appears near the star Antares in the south-southwestern sky after sunset on September 3rd.

South-southwestern sky after sunset
The crescent Moon appears near the star Antares in the south-southwestern sky after sunset on September 3rd. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

Evening: The Moon appears in the “handle of the teapot” of the constellation Sagittarius in the southern sky after sunset on September 5th. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

Southern sky after sunset
The Moon appears in the “handle of the teapot” of the constellation Sagittarius in the southern sky after sunset on September 5th. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.
The Moon - In the Sky
  • The Moon is a Waxing crescent – visible low to the southwest in the early evening.
  • The First Quarter Moon occurs on September 5th – visible high in the southern sky in early evening.
  • After September 5th, the Moon will be a Waxing Gibbous – visible to the southeast in early evening, and up for most of the night.

Moon
The Moon from August 30 – September 5, 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! (See below)

Moon News

Congratulations to @kari2030 and partners on the launch of #KPLO (Danuri), their first lunar exploration mission! KPLO will spend the next 4.5 months traveling to lunar orbit, where its 5 instruments will study the Moon's poles. https://t.co/bDB1rKK51J 📸: @SLDelta45 (1/3) pic.twitter.com/TtBsa1OIAp

— Jim Free (@JimFree) August 5, 2022

Visit the Moon on NASA’s Solar System Orrery

The Sun - In the Sky

The Sun has five named sunspots, again – AR3088 is VERY active, and rotating out of view.!

Spaceweather.com says: “Sunspot AR3089 has a delta-class magnetic field that poses a threat for X-class solar flares.”

The Sun on August 22, 2022. Credit: SDO/HMI

The Sun seen in 193 angstroms on August 29th.

An active region with HUGE coronal loops and blowing flares all over is rotating out of view on the Sun’s limb. Three large coronal holes are spread out across the Sun’s face – one hole stretching down to the south pole. A flare blows a temporary hole in the corona.

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/dailymov/2022/08/29/20220829_1024_0193.mp4

The Sun seen in 304 angstroms on August 29th.

Prominences everywhere! The active region mentioned in the other video is very obvious in this video – WOW!

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/dailymov/2022/08/29/20220829_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 August 24, 2022. Credit: Akihiro Yamazaki.

2022/8/24
CFF 200MM F8, PM4X
BAADER SOLAR CONTINUUM FILTER
PLAYERONE SATURN-M SQR

Akihiro Yamazaki

Solar Corona

Solar wind speed is 558.1 km/sec ▲ with a density of 11.42 protons/cm3 ▲▲ at 0210 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:

Today the Sun released another solar flare! 💥 Solar flares are intense bursts of radiation from the Sun that can be seen as bright flashes of light. Today’s M-class – or medium-sized – flare was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. pic.twitter.com/FQYoNnJNAq

— NASA Sun & Space (@NASASun) August 29, 2022

Asteroids - In the Sky
  • Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) discovered this month: 115, this year: 1656, all time: 29,482 (+102)
  • Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs): 2281 (+1 updated 2022-08-30)
  • Total Minor Planets discovered (MPC): 1,217,302 (-57 updated 2022-08-30)

Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters:

Asteroid Date(UT) Miss Distance Velocity (km/s) Diameter (m)
2022 QX1 2022-Aug-31 5.4 LD 21.1 43
2022 QZ6 2022-Aug-31 3.3 LD 11.2 35
2021 CQ5 2022-Sep-01 8.7 LD 13.5 7
2022 QB2 2022-Sep-01 10.3 LD 15.9 32
2022 QN5 2022-Sep-02 2.4 LD 13.5 22
2022 QU5 2022-Sep-05 19.2 LD 7.1 31
2022 QC7 2022-Sep-06 12.2 LD 9.1 21
2022 QF2 2022-Sep-11 19.1 LD 8.4 44
2008 RW 2022-Sep-12 17.5 LD 10.2 98
2020 PT4 2022-Sep-15 19.7 LD 10.8 39
2022 QD1 2022-Sep-16 19.5 LD 9.5 72
2016 HF2 2022-Sep-29 19.2 LD 5.6 21
2018 ER1 2022-Oct-02 14.7 LD 4 27
2018 VG 2022-Oct-05 18.5 LD 6.7 12
2021 TJ10 2022-Oct-06 19.6 LD 8.1 6
2006 SG7 2022-Oct-07 16.7 LD 18.4 93
2013 TJ6 2022-Oct-07 11.7 LD 14.4 32
2013 SL20 2022-Oct-14 6.2 LD 12.1 45
2020 TO2 2022-Oct-15 1.4 LD 12.6 18
2020 BD 2022-Oct-16 12.1 LD 11.4 20
2022 QM6 2022-Oct-17 19.8 LD 4.2 69
2016 TH94 2022-Oct-25 19.1 LD 13.5 43
2019 AN5 2022-Oct-27 20 LD 6.8 213
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:

Watch the @UCLAMeteorites Gallery guided tour, an integral part of #PlanetaryDefense and #Asteroid Exploration mini-Conference 2022, hosted by @aiaa Los Angeles-Las Vegas Section:https://t.co/msZkPs0It2 #AsteroidDay pic.twitter.com/1UphkWT85B

— Asteroid Day ☄ (@AsteroidDay) August 25, 2022

Fireballs - In the Sky

On August 29, 2022, the NASA All Sky Fireball Network reported 27 fireballs!
(26 sporadics,1 northern iota Aquariid)

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). Source: SpaceWeather.com

Fireball News:

Bright fireball meteor east of Tucson ~9:03pm 08/29/2022. #tucson #meteor pic.twitter.com/5GaoNYOM3R

— David Rankin (@AsteroidDave) August 30, 2022

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

Visit the Vatican Observatory’s Tucson Meteor-Cam Page
The Solar System - In the Sky

Position of the planets & several spacecraft in the inner solar system on August 30th:

Inner Solar System
Top-down view of the inner solar system on August 30, 2022. Credit: Bob Trembley / NASA Eyes on the Solar System

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

Middle Solar System
Top-down view of the middle solar system on August 9, 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

Click here to see NASA’s interactive solar system website

Solar System News

We've got a date with that dot. Using ground telescopes, the #DARTMission confirmed the orbit of asteroid Didymos.

DART is scheduled to impact Didymos' moonlet Dimorphos on Sept. 26. The asteroids and this test of planetary defense pose no risk to Earth: https://t.co/DLy1DZwyzS pic.twitter.com/qeCon6f5Fg

— NASA (@NASA) August 26, 2022

Spacecraft News - In the Sky

#Artemis1 launch delayed due to engine bleed issue

Hey, you guys do WHATEVER it takes to make sure the launch goes flawlessly!

#Artemis1 was delayed due to an engine bleed issue, but testing is part of the process. #Artemis2 will carry @NASA_Astronauts, so we need to ensure we get it right. Incredibly honored to have shared moments with @VP @KamalaHarris and the @Globies as we progress toward the Moon. pic.twitter.com/sMqwEw5Wup

— Jessica Meir (@Astro_Jessica) August 29, 2022

Voyager at 45!

What questions do you have about @NASAVoyager?

We’re going LIVE in less than 24 hours with deputy project scientist Linda Spilker and propulsion engineer Todd Barber as we continue to celebrate the mission's 45th anniversary.

Send us your questions!https://t.co/y7hnJigvGg pic.twitter.com/UkFWgcv966

— NASA JPL (@NASAJPL) August 30, 2022

Rovers (not dogs) on Mars

Experience the Interactive Mars Curiosity Mission

It's #InternationalDogDay! While there aren't any dogs on other planets (that we know of), we do have a couple of adorable rovers.

Get images, weather reports, and updates from @NASAPersevere and @MarsCuriosity at https://t.co/TXSGxOIOJA. pic.twitter.com/CbbA73GVYD

— NASA (@NASA) August 26, 2022

HiRISE - Beautiful Mars - North Pole!

See the MRO mission on NASA’s Solar System Orrery

 

North polar residual cap - https://t.co/khFl4JbQla pic.twitter.com/nF3XvWQSnB

— HiRISE Bot (@HiRISEBot) August 30, 2022

Juno sees Jupiter's rings

From 2016, but I never saw this until today!

As the Juno spacecraft zipped through the narrow gap between Jupiter's radiation belts and the planet during its first science flyby in August 2016, a star tracking camera collected this image showing the dusty rings and the stars beyond, including bright Betelgeuse. 2/3 pic.twitter.com/YBRihubJgi

— NASA Solar System (@NASASolarSystem) August 23, 2022

International Space Station

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

The Exp 67 crew began the week with muscle measurements, wound healing studies, and preps for a robotics spacewalk. https://t.co/K1g4zJws3q

— International Space Station (@Space_Station) August 29, 2022

NASA 's Surface Water Ocean Topography mission to launch Dec. 5

Our launch date is set! 🌎 @NASA's Surface Water Ocean Topography mission, or SWOT, will provide the first global survey of Earth's surface water. It's scheduled for launch on December 5, 2022. https://t.co/7r0x0AluCt #TrackingWorldWater pic.twitter.com/DVliZmuFxu

— NASA JPL (@NASAJPL) August 25, 2022

CO2

416.56 ppm #CO2

📈 416.56 ppm #CO2 in the atmosphere for the 34th week of 2022 📈 Up from 414.37 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/Zbt1QxCC9V

— CO2_Earth (@CO2_earth) August 30, 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 5071 (+2)
Confirmed Planets Discovered by Kepler 2711
Kepler Project Candidates Yet To Be Confirmed 2056
Confirmed Planets Discovered by K2 537
K2 Candidates Yet To Be Confirmed 969
Confirmed Planets Discovered by TESS 234 (+1)
TESS Project Candidates Integrated into Archive 5808
Current date TESS Project Candidates at ExoFOP 5845 (+37)
TESS Candidates Yet To Be Confirmed 3899 (+26)
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.

Click here to see NASA’s interactive exoplanet website

Exoplanet News:

August 25, 2022

First JWST Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy Data Available in the NASA Exoplanet Archive!

We’ve added new WASP-39 b spectra from NASA’s Webb Telescope to our Transmission Spectroscopy table, which provides a single place to access publicly available spectra taken by various telescopes for this object, including NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer, the Very Large Telescope, and Chile’s Observatorio Astronomico Nacional.

Pro Tip: Enter WASP-39 b in the Planet Name column to filter the table to view only the WASP-39 b entries.

Read the media release and the discovery paper .

We've identified 5,071 planets beyond our solar system. Some have clouds made of the same materials as rocks or gems. Others have two suns, red suns or no sun. Each is a marvel. https://t.co/Q72MwrjTwX pic.twitter.com/HzLFhNno0z

— NASA Exoplanets (@NASAExoplanets) August 29, 2022

All These Worlds

An ever-growing slideshow with exoplanet images I’ve created for these posts:

M27

M26

M26

M25

M24

M23

M22

M21

M21

M20

M18

M17

M16

M15

M13

M13

M13

Groombridge 1618 b

Groombridge 1618

DE CVn

Artistic rendering of an exoplanet orbiting Gliese 3622

Gliese 876

Gliese 1002

Gliese 1002

Gliese 229

Luyten 145-141

Gliese 687

Gliese 674

Exoplanet

Wolf 1061 b

Lacaille 8760

Lacaille 8760

Artistic rendering

Artistic rendering

Luyten's Star

Sunset on YZ Ceti b

YZ Ceti b

Exoplanet Gliese 1061 b

Epsilon Indi Ab

Groombridge 34 Ab

Ross 128 b

Lacaille 9352

Ringed Exoplanet

Ross 154

Wolf 359 b

Exoplanet

51 Eri b

Dimidium

Proxima Centauri b

Hot Exoplanet PSR J1719-14 b

Exoplanet near Trifid Nebula

Exoplanet

Betelgeuse

Exoplanet Kepler-903 b

Hypothetical Exoplanet

NGTS-4b

Exoplanet artwork

Exoplanet Artwork

Exoplanet PSR B1257+12 b

Hypothetical exoplanet

Blue Sunrise

Red Sunrise

Kepler-16b

Hypothetical exoplanet RSC 10389-10378-1-1-11 3

Exoplanet WASP 12 b

Exoplanet Kepler-1449 b

Exoplanet Art

Exoplanet 55 Cancri e

Exoplanet Artwork

Exoplanet Artwork

Exoplanet Kepler-47 c

M22

M22

Aurora - In the Sky
Auroras. Taken by Gunjan Sinha  on August 29, 2022 @ Saskatoon, SK, Canada

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

Join “Celebrate the Night Skies” week in Sept and learn easy steps you can take to reduce your contribution to light pollution.

Free Webinar 7-8 pm CDT 12 September:https://t.co/iq3wBP8JRz#lightpollution #skyglow @IDADarkSky @lakesuperiormag @kare11wx @LakeSuperiorNew

— Mike Shaw (@mikeshawphoto) August 29, 2022

  • 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

Beautiful Universe

Feast your eyes on the beautiful spiral structure of the Phantom Galaxy, M74, as seen by Webb in the mid-infrared. Delicate filaments of dust and gas wind outwards from the center of the galaxy, which has a ring of star formation around its nucleus. https://t.co/pPVvxsC6KA pic.twitter.com/JQ2C9Wf19f

— NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) August 30, 2022

Messier Tour: M27 – The Dumbbell Nebula

Messier 27 – Photo credit: Giuseppe Donatiello via Flickr

Messier 27 (M27), also known as the Dumbbell Nebula, Diabolo Nebula or Apple Core Nebula, is a planetary nebula in Vulpecula. The Dumbbell Nebula is large in size and quite bright, which makes it a popular object among amateur astronomers. It can be seen in binoculars and small telescopes.

The nebula covers an area of 8 by 5.6 arc minutes of the apparent sky and has a linear radius of 1.44 light years. Its faint halo stretches out to more than 15 arc minutes. M27 lies at an approximate distance of 1,360 light years, or 417 parsecs, from Earth and has an apparent magnitude of 7.5. It has the designation NGC 6853 in the New General Catalogue.

Messier 27 is the second brightest planetary nebula in the sky, second only to the Helix Nebula in Aquarius, and probably the easiest one to observe because it has a higher surface brightness than the Helix and is therefore easier to find. – messier-objects.com

Planetary Nebula M27, the Dumbbell Nebula
The Dumbbell Nebula. VATT image by Matt Nelson.

The name Dumbbell comes from the English astronomer John Herschel, who observed the nebula in 1828 and compared its shape to that of a dumbbell.

The Dumbbell Nebula lies just to the south of the star 14 Vulpeculae. It can be seen in large binoculars, and some of its details are visible even in smaller telescopes. The best time of year to observe M27 is summer as it lies within the Summer Triangle, a prominent asterism in the summer sky formed by the bright stars Altair in Aquila constellation, Vega in Lyra and Deneb in Cygnus. – messier-objects.com

The Dumbbell Nebula. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Hora (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

Location of M27 in the Milky Way

M27
Depiction of M27’s position in relation to the Sun and the Milky Way’s core – top-down view. Credit: Bob Trembley / SpaceEngine.

Here’s my obligatory “What would a planet look like if it were near that Messier object” pic:

M27
Depiction of an exoplanet orbiting a star near Messier 27 (M27). Credit: Bob Trembley / Space Engine

Click here to view M27 in the Worldwide Telescope web client

Cover Image: Messier 27. Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello

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. Latest update released on July 7, 2022.
SpaceEngine – Explore the universe in 3D and VR! Latest update released on July 6, 2022.
Worldwide Telescope – operated by the American Astronomical Society (AAS). Latest update released on March 31, 2022.

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