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In the Sky this Week – February 15, 2022

By Robert Trembley  |  14 Feb 2022  |  Sacred Space Astronomy

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This entry is part 81 of 98 in the series Diary

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

Test Animals in Space

I told students in my after-school astronomy and space science club about Laika and other space test animals.

https://twitter.com/Nick_Stevens_Gr/status/1492463638413725700

One student asked “Did the dog make it back OK?” I shook my head and gave her a very sad look – this was not the answer she was expecting…

I went on to discuss some of the other animals that have been sent into space – did you know that 2 Horsfield’s tortoises were some of the first animals to go on a trip around the Moon?

I also discussed the newly discovered exoplanet, Proxima d, orbiting Proxima Centauri. I said that this planet was likely tidally-locked to Proxima, and asked the students what that would mean if I was standing on the planet? A student got it in one! She said “the sun would never set.” I was so happy! For more info and images of Proxima d see the Exoplanet section.

Artist’s depiction of exoplanet Proxima d – the third discovered orbiting Proxima Centauri. Credit: Bob Trembley / SpaceEngine
The Sky - In the Sky

Jupiter now appears very low in the western sky at dusk – it may be hard to spot after Feb. 20th.

Western horizon after sunset
Jupiter appears very low above the western horizon at dusk this week. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

Mercury, Venus and Mars continue to appear in the southeastern predawn sky all week; I showed this to students in my after-school club – I told them this was an “accident-causer” because it’s pretty stare-worthy for early morning drivers.

Southeastern horizon on before sunrise
Mercury, Venus and Mars appear in the southeastern predawn sky all week. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

The nearly Full Moon appears in the eastern sky after sunset with the star Regulus on Feb. 15th.

Eastern sky after sunset
The Moon appears in the eastern sky after sunset with the star Regulus on Feb. 15th. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

The Full Moon appears ~4° 52′ from the star Regulus in the eastern sky after sunset on Feb. 16th.

Eastern sky after sunset
The Full Moon appears very close to the star Regulus in the eastern sky after sunset on Feb. 16th. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.
Conjunction with Mars and Regulus
The Full Moon appears ~4° 52′ from the star Regulus in the eastern sky after sunset on Feb. 16th. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

The Moon appears in the southern sky near the star Spica in the early morning hours on Feb. 20th & 21st.

Southern sky in the early morning
The Moon appears in the southern sky near the star Spica in the early morning hours on Feb. 20th. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.
Southern sky in the early morning
The Moon appears in the southern sky near the star Spica in the early morning hours on Feb. 21st. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.
The Moon - In the Sky
  • The Moon is a Waxing Gibbous – visible to the southeast in early evening, up for most of the night.
  • The Full Moon occurs on Feb. 16th – rising at sunset, visible high in the sky around midnight, and visible all night.
  • After Feb. 16th, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous – rises after sunset, visible high in the sky after midnight, and visible to the southwest after sunrise.
Moon
The Moon from Feb. 15-21, 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’re so beautiful @NASAEarth, I just can’t turn away! Happy Valentine's Day! #TidalLocking #SynchronousRotation #OrbitingIsTheBest #YouSpinMeRightRound pic.twitter.com/wxbERDltRW

— NASA Moon (@NASAMoon) February 14, 2022

The Sun - In the Sky

The Sun has five named sunspots, with a large plage rotating out of view (right side of image).

Spaceweather.com says “Sunspot AR2941 erupted on Feb. 14th (1731 UT), producing an M1-class solar flare. A brief shortwave radio blackout followed the explosion after X-rays ionized the top of Earth’s atmosphere. Ham radio operators and aviators in the Americas may have noticed unusual propagation effects at frequencies below 20 MHz. “

The Sun on February 15, 2022. Credit: SDO/HMI

The Sun seen in 193 angstroms on February 14th.

The south pole coronal hole is open, with a large tendril stretching towards the center of the Sun’s face. A smaller coronal hole is rotating into view in the northern hemisphere.

There’s an interesting stripe pattern covering the Sun’s face.

 

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/dailymov/2022/02/14/20220214_1024_0193.mp4

The Sun seen in 304 angstroms on February 14th.

Moderate prominence activity, LOTS of active regions crackling with flares.

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/dailymov/2022/02/14/20220214_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
The Sun on Feb. 15, 2022. Credit: Toshio Ohnishi.

Toshio’s equipment and software:
D_SHG II
By Digital Spectro_Helio_Graph II
2022_02_15_08:08 (JST)
6563A H_alpha
Slit width is about 10 Microns.(home made)
Grating (Richardson Grating) 1800L/mm
5000A Brazed
Front Red Filter
SharpCap4.0
114fps, 1305frames
Bandwidth is about 0.3A
Resolution power is 23460
Scanning time is about 10seconds.

Solar Corona

Solar wind speed is 416.0 km/sec ▼ with a density of 5.5 protons/cm3 ▲ at 1335 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:

NASA’s MinXSS CubeSat has launched! 🚀

Yesterday evening, the tiny, cube-shaped satellite hitched a ride into space where it will study x-rays from solar flares.

More: https://t.co/usDAQG2Z7B pic.twitter.com/JXIan35nnT

— NASA Sun & Space (@NASASun) February 15, 2022

Asteroids - In the Sky
  • Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) discovered this month: 142, this year: 441 (+73), all time: 28,364 (+73)
  • Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs): 2263 (+3 updated 2022-02-15)
  • Total Minor Planets discovered (MPC): 1,166,155 (-10 updated 2022-02-15)
  • 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)
2022 CO6 2022-Feb-15 0.6 LD 9.3 26
2022 BF6 2022-Feb-15 9.4 LD 17.1 36
2022 CH7 2022-Feb-15 2.1 LD 11.6 12
2022 CQ4 2022-Feb-15 3.4 LD 12.7 24
2022 CT6 2022-Feb-15 6.6 LD 8.5 11
2022 CC7 2022-Feb-17 7.9 LD 13.4 15
2018 CW2 2022-Feb-18 2.2 LD 10.8 25
2020 CX1 2022-Feb-18 7.2 LD 8.2 54
2022 BH7 2022-Feb-18 6 LD 22.7 229
2022 CX4 2022-Feb-19 2.8 LD 6 9
2022 CG5 2022-Feb-21 19.8 LD 6.3 39
2022 CC2 2022-Feb-22 11.9 LD 11.6 44
455176 2022-Feb-22 14 LD 25.1 257
2022 BA6 2022-Feb-22 8 LD 2.7 19
2022 BS6 2022-Feb-23 13.5 LD 12 44
2017 CX1 2022-Feb-23 15.2 LD 5 8
2016 QJ44 2022-Feb-24 19.6 LD 8.5 319
2021 QO2 2022-Feb-25 20 LD 11 65
2020 UO4 2022-Feb-28 18.5 LD 2.1 7
138971 2022-Mar-04 12.8 LD 12 742
2021 UL7 2022-Mar-04 11.5 LD 2 25
2020 DC 2022-Mar-06 3.9 LD 4.9 16
2021 EY1 2022-Mar-10 10.1 LD 15.5 16
2015 DR215 2022-Mar-11 17.5 LD 8.3 290
2018 GY 2022-Mar-13 11.9 LD 10.7 43
2022 BX1 2022-Mar-13 20.1 LD 11 161
2016 FZ12 2022-Mar-19 2.2 LD 8.3 16
2020 SQ 2022-Mar-21 2.8 LD 6 12
2013 BO76 2022-Mar-24 13.3 LD 13.8 271
2011 GE3 2022-Mar-26 7.6 LD 7 22
2012 FX35 2022-Mar-26 13.7 LD 5.9 25
2010 GD35 2022-Mar-29 17.7 LD 12.5 43
2020 FW5 2022-Mar-30 8.9 LD 13.1 27
2007 FF1 2022-Apr-01 19.4 LD 12.8 155
2021 GN1 2022-Apr-02 14.4 LD 14.3 19
2016 GW221 2022-Apr-02 9.8 LD 5.9 41
2012 TV 2022-Apr-05 19.2 LD 18.1 32
2020 GH1 2022-Apr-09 16.8 LD 7.2 28
2017 TO2 2022-Apr-10 17.9 LD 11.6 78
363599 2022-Apr-12 19.3 LD 24.5 221
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:

Want to meet the first discovered quadruple #asteroid in history? Learn details about their discovery in this @nytimes article:https://t.co/EFVW4LKJvS pic.twitter.com/TrEY9C8Tjm

— Asteroid Day ☄ (@AsteroidDay) February 14, 2022

Fireballs - In the Sky

On February 14, 2022, the NASA All Sky Fireball Network reported 8 fireballs!
(8 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:

Slow fireball over Austin, Tx on Jan. 29th!

Video of yesterday morning's long duration #meteor #fireball that passed over Nebraska as viewed from Rapid City, SD. @CamMeteor @IMOmeteors@amsmeteors @meteordoc @UKMeteorNetwork @FireballsUK @UK_Fireballhttps://t.co/f5o5GC2Lef

YouTube version https://t.co/TSDdsbH7Eg pic.twitter.com/DUG5hoCRXy

— Tom A. Warner (@ztresearch) February 14, 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 February 15th.

Inner Solar System
Top-down view of the inner solar system on Feb. 15, 2022. Credit: Bob Trembley / NASA Eyes on the Solar System

Position of the planets in the middle solar system:

Middle Solar System
Top-down view of the inner solar system on Feb. 15, 2022. Credit: Bob Trembley / NASA Eyes on the Solar System

Position of the planets in the outer solar system:

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

Solar System News

Our X-ray telescopes usually focus on the universe outside the @NASASolarSystem, but sometimes they make discoveries within it! 🛰️ NuSTAR recently observed the highest-energy light ever detected from Jupiter and helped solve a decades-old mystery: https://t.co/hL34uPOuj3 pic.twitter.com/FzCXQWe71s

— NASA Universe (@NASAUniverse) February 10, 2022

Spacecraft News - In the Sky

Webb Selfie!

Click to see JWST on NASA’s Solar System Orrery

Bonus image! When it’s time to focus, sometimes you need to take a good look at yourself.

This “selfie” taken by Webb of its primary mirror was not captured by an externally mounted engineering camera, but with a special lens within its NIRCam instrument. #UnfoldTheUniverse pic.twitter.com/XtzCdktrCA

— NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) February 11, 2022

Working out the kinks with sampling crumbly rocks.

Click to see Perseverance on NASA’s Solar System Orrery

 

The first sample I tried to collect was too soft. In an effort to understand what happened & how we can work with crumbly rocks, scientists and engineers from my team are experimenting with similar rocks on Earth and a duplicate of my drill. #SamplingMars https://t.co/HSlD35BsTA

— NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) February 15, 2022

HiRISE - Beautiful Mars

Click to see Mars on NASA’s Solar System Orrery

HiPOD: Varied Types of Rock in a Crater in Eos Chasma

This image shows a crater on the floor of Eos Chasma, part of the Valles Marineris canyon system. The south wall of this crater shows evidence of several different types of rock, with diverse colors. https://t.co/erUdfg2CTK pic.twitter.com/kqZsB430Bh

— HiRISE: Beautiful Mars (NASA) (@HiRISE) February 15, 2022

International Space Station

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

Russia's Progress 80 resupply ship blasted off today at 11:25pm ET and has reached orbit. It will dock to the station on Thursday at 2:06am ET. More... https://t.co/hwe6BQqACF pic.twitter.com/Eem9dPbOGa

— International Space Station (@Space_Station) February 15, 2022

Lunar Gateway ESPRIT module to have a room with a view

See the ESPRIT module here

The Gateway's orbit around the Moon provides a research opportunity to directly measure solar wind and radiation from the Sun outside of the effects of earth’s magnetosphere.

Learn more about the space weather instruments that will fly on the Gateway: https://t.co/1ddY00IDen pic.twitter.com/nXPMJaxNzW

— Gateway Lunar Space Station (@NASA_Gateway) February 7, 2022

CO2

418.38 ppm #CO2

❤️ #HappyValentines one & all ❤️ To make things even hotter, our world has more #CO2 in the air this year: 420.83 ppm on Feb. 13, 2022, up from the 417.02 reported last Valenintes. 📈 @NOAA MLO data: https://t.co/MZIEphYygh 🙏 More CO2 Earth info via https://t.co/PTTkLiPGm2 🙏 pic.twitter.com/rds2J94lvz

— CO2_Earth (@CO2_earth) February 15, 2022

NASA Climate

The concentration of water vapor, Earth’s most abundant greenhouse gas, is rising as our climate warms. But water vapor isn’t causing human-produced global warming. Instead, it’s amplifying it. Learn why: https://t.co/ikATw0Erpu pic.twitter.com/zdWQANQZw0

— NASA Climate (@NASAClimate) February 9, 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 4914
Confirmed Planets Discovered by Kepler 2707
Kepler Project Candidates Yet To Be Confirmed 2058
Confirmed Planets Discovered by K2 477
K2 Candidates Yet To Be Confirmed 1024
Confirmed Planets Discovered by TESS 180
TESS Project Candidates Integrated into Archive (2022-02-12 13:00:02) 5243 (+33)
Current date TESS Project Candidates at ExoFOP 5243 (+33)
TESS Candidates Yet To Be Confirmed 3505 (+17)
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:

3/ The newly discovered planet, named Proxima d, orbits Proxima Centauri at a distance of about four million kilometres, less than a tenth of Mercury’s distance from the Sun, taking just five days to complete one orbit.

Illustration credit: @ESO /L. Calçada pic.twitter.com/nywEA4HTjb

— ESO (@ESO) February 10, 2022

Proxima d in SpaceEngine:

I added Proxima d to SpaceEngine and took some shots of the planet and system.

Artist’s depiction of exoplanet Proxima d – the third discovered orbiting Proxima Centauri. Credit: Bob Trembley / SpaceEngine
Orbits of Proxima d & b
Orbits of Proxima d & b. Credit: Bob Trembley / SpaceEngine
Orbit of Proxima c
Orbit of Proxima c. Credit: Bob Trembley / SpaceEngine
Proxima Centauri
Artist’s depiction of the Proxima Centauri planetary system. Credit: Bob Trembley / SpaceEngine

Aurora - In the Sky
Auroras taken by Ross Pearmine  on February 12, 2022 @ Iceland, Þingvellir

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

Earlier this year, IDA Advocate @sriram_p_murali traveled to his hometown of Pollachi, India, where he made it his mission to explore nearby #darkskies. The experience so moved him that he collaborated w/@AstroSyahirah to convey it in a painting. https://t.co/EshfH9cxaq

— DarkSky International (@IDADarkSky) February 9, 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

STEM

Explore Earth: Real NASA Data for Real Learning with My NASA Data, Tuesday 02/15/2022, 7:00 pm ET, FREE 1-hour Webinar, Educators in Grades 4-12. The NASA EPDC at Texas State University is providing a 1-hour webinar. https://t.co/e1jukOa0qN #NASA #EPDC #STEM #TXST pic.twitter.com/F7CmLqVTki

— NASA EPDC (@NASAEPDC) February 15, 2022

Messier Tour: M5

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Globular cluster Messier 5. Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA

The globular cluster Messier 5, shown here in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, is one of the oldest belonging to the Milky Way. The majority of its stars formed more than 12 billion years ago, but there are some unexpected newcomers on the scene, adding some vitality to this aging population. Stars in globular clusters form in the same stellar nursery and grow old together.

The most massive stars age quickly, exhausting their fuel supply in less than a million years, and end their lives in spectacular supernovae explosions. This process should have left the ancient cluster Messier 5 with only old, low-mass stars, which, as they have aged and cooled, have become red giants, while the oldest stars have evolved even further into blue horizontal branch stars. Yet astronomers have spotted many young, blue stars in this cluster, hiding amongst the much more luminous ancient stars.

Astronomers think that these laggard youngsters, called blue stragglers, were created either by stellar collisions or by the transfer of mass between binary stars. Such events are easy to imagine in densely populated globular clusters, in which up to a few million stars are tightly packed together. Messier 5 lies at a distance of about 25 000 light-years in the constellation of Serpens (The Snake). This image was taken with Wide Field Channel of Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys.

The picture was created from images taken through a blue filter (F435W, coloured blue), a red filter (F625W, coloured green) and a near-infrared filter (F814W, coloured red). The total exposure times per filter were 750 s, 400 s and 567 s, respectively. The field of view is about 2.6 arcminutes across. – NASA

Messier 5. Image: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

Messier 5 is one of the larger globular clusters known, spanning about 165 light years in diameter. The cluster has a tidal radius of 202 light years. Member stars are gravitationally bound to it within this space and can’t be torn away from the cluster by the gravitational pull of the Milky Way.

The cluster has an ellipsoidal rather than spherical shape. It is receding from us at about 52 km/s. The compact core region is about 6 light years in diameter, corresponding to an angular size of 0.84′.

Messier 5 was discovered by the German astronomer Gottfried Kirch on May 5, 1702 while observing a comet. He believed it was a star with nebulosity.

Charles Messier found the object on May 23, 1764, and described it as a nebula without stars. He wrote, “Beautiful Nebula discovered between the Balance & the Serpent, near the star in the Serpent, of 6th magnitude, which is the 5th according to the Catalog of Flamsteed [5 Serpentis]: it doesn’t contain any star; it is round, & one sees it very well, in a fine sky, with an ordinary refractor of 1-foot [FL]. ” – messier-objects.com

M5
Artist’s depiction of globular cluster M5 looking in the direction of the Sun (blue marker). Credit: Bob Trembley / SpaceEngine.
M5
Artist’s depiction of globular cluster M5 looking in the direction of the Milky Way’s core. Credit: Bob Trembley / SpaceEngine
M5
Artist’s depiction of globular cluster M5 (blue marker) above the disk of the Milky Way. Credit: Bob Trembley / SpaceEngine
Click here to view M5 in the Worldwide Telescope web client

Cover Image: Globular Cluster M5. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA 

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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