{"id":1645,"date":"2014-06-29T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2014-06-27T23:43:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T23:43:35","slug":"astronomy-events-of-july-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/29\/astronomy-events-of-july-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy events of July 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a1SkyCaramba! Weekly astronomy blog for the week ending July 5, 2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Earth will be farthest from the sun on the 4<sup>th<\/sup>. Pluto is at opposition the same day.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of July, a waxing crescent moon is just a little north of the equator heading south. In the early morning hours of the 5<sup>th<\/sup>, some viewers in South America will see the moon pass in front of Mars. Viewers in other places in South America will see the moon pass in front of Saturn on the morning of the 8<sup>th<\/sup>. In the time between, on the 6<sup>th<\/sup>, the moon will pass by the bright star Spica.<\/p>\n<p>The moon will be its farthest south for the month on the 10<sup>th<\/sup>. Then it will be full on the 12<sup>th<\/sup>. Also on the 12<sup>th<\/sup>, Mercury will reach greatest elongation west of the sun. At 20.9\u00b0 from the sun, it will not be at its easiest to see, but it won&#8217;t be at its hardest either. The messenger planet will be at perihelion on the 29<sup>th<\/sup>, still in the morning sky.<\/p>\n<p>Some people will call this month&#8217;s full moon a \u201csupermoon\u201d because lunar perigee occurs the day after on the 13<sup>th<\/sup>. The moon reaches its farthest north on the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> and is close to Venus in the morning sky the next day. Lunar apogee is on the 28<sup>th<\/sup>. On the last day of the month, the moon is on the equator heading south again.<\/p>\n<p>Mars will be 1.3\u00b0 from Spica on the 14<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The Southern Delta Aquarids meteor shower peaks around the 28<sup>th<\/sup>. The best views will usually be from the east after midnight. That&#8217;s around the time of the new moon, so moonlight won&#8217;t spoil the view.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/29\/astronomy-events-of-july-2014\/jupiter-hit-nasa-esa-250x\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1646\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1646\" title=\"Jupiter hit NASA-ESA 250x\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Jupiter-hit-NASA-ESA-250x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a>July 16<sup>th<\/sup> marks the 20<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 striking Jupiter. The comet had broken into multiple pieces. Each fell into the big planet, one after another, just a little beyond the visible side of the planet&#8217;s disk. Telescopes all over Earth and a few above it were pointed at Jupiter as temporary holes punched in the planet&#8217;s cloud bands orbited into view.<\/p>\n<p>Jupiter passes on the other side of the sun on the 24<sup>th<\/sup>. Two days later, the moon will be close by. But both will be too close to the sun to see this conjunction.<\/p>\n<p>The first and fourth asteroids ever discovered will be just 0.2\u00b0 apart from each other in Virgo on the 5<sup>th<\/sup>. Their respective names are Ceres and Vesta.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a1SkyCaramba!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/29\/astronomy-events-of-july-2014\/occultations-753x\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1647\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1647\" title=\"Occultations 753x\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Occultations-753x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"723\" height=\"920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Occultations-753x.jpg 723w, https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Occultations-753x-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth farthest from the sun, Mercury closest to it, and the moon passes in front of two planets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5,25,4,18,614,516,517,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1653,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}