August10th stargazing

10-8-2021STARGAZING

 By Ramesh S Krishna

Today was a special evening because I did a lot of Star gazing! What made it even more interesting was that I had my buddies on a video call with me!

1. Venus, Mars and  Moon conjunction. 

It appeared in the west just after the sunset. Venus was very bright and the Waxing crescent babymoon was a delight to watch. Mars was very dim because later this month it is going to be hidden. I was not able to take a photo of mars because it was not visible.  Myself and my buddy took this picture.







2. Spotting of ISS[International space station].

I spotted it with the help of spotthestation.nasa.gov. You can open the website and enter your city. Then it will show a timetable, Follow it and you can spot the station. Today it was a beautiful sight to watch because today was a 7minute pass.It passed from the Northeast to the southeast direction. If you look at the video, you will be able to spot a pale yellow dot which will keep moving. Kindly Watch it in full screen.








3.Jupiter and Saturn

I spotted Jupiter & Saturn in the direction of East. It appeared bright and was amazing.


4. I saw lots of constellations like Scorpius, Virgo, Libra, Ophiuchus, Triangulum Audtrale & Aquaris.

But I was not able to take a photo because of the low luminosity and light pollution.


Hope you enjoyed the blog. I will meet you with a really exciting exciting happening on 13th August !

RSK



 






 



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