{"id":539,"date":"2020-06-28T22:16:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T22:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/?p=539"},"modified":"2020-07-14T02:06:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T02:06:34","slug":"july-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/july-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Comet C\/2020 F3 (NEOWISE). Photograph by SkyCaramba.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A comet from a far out orbit is visiting our part of the solar system this month. Comet C\/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) is a northern hemisphere object and may be seen with the naked eye in the northwest after sunset and in the northeast before sunrise. It sets in late evening and rises in early morning. If you’re far enough north, you may see it up all night. The comet last journeyed this way more than 6,000 years ago. In its current orbit, the comet will take longer to return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At sunset in July, Leo and Virgo are\nsetting. Bo\u00f6tes and Hercules are high. Aquila and Cygnus are rising.\nA waxing gibbous moon is on the meridian around sunset as the month\nstarts. Naked eye planet watching begins mid-evening with Saturn and\nJupiter rising next to Sagittarius. The full moon passes by them on\nthe 5th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Saturn<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mars rises around local midnight to the\nright of Pisces. The moon at last quarter visits the red planet on\nthe 11th<\/sup> and 12th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mars<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With a dark sky and binoculars or a\ntelescope, you can look for Uranus north of the head of Cetus the\nwhale. You’ll have a better chance when the moon isn’t in the sky.\nBefore about the 10th<\/sup> and after the 19th<\/sup> will\nbe good viewing periods. Of course, if you have really good vision,\nyou can see Uranus with the naked eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Uranus<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Venus is a mid-morning riser moving\nthrough Taurus. The planet is moving through the V-shaped asterism\ncalled the Hyades and is closest to orange Aldebaran on the 12th<\/sup>.\nA waning crescent moon will be left of it on the morning of the 17th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Venus<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Venus<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mercury is a morning object in Gemini,\nvisible in the second half of the month. The moon, even thinner than\nwhen it passed by Venus, passes left of Mercury on the 19th<\/sup>.\nMercury continues passing through the twins constellation through the\nend of the month. On the way, it’s at greatest elongation in the\nmorning sky 20.1\u00b0 west of the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mercury's<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By the end of July, Orion has emerged\nas a morning constellation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earth is at aphelion on the 4th<\/sup>.\nIt’s 1.017 times its average 92.9 million miles (148.7 km) from the\nsun. Venus is at aphelion on the 10th<\/sup>. It’s 0.728\nastronomical units from the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The moon’s circumstances this month:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full moon on the 5th<\/sup>. Last\nquarter on the 12th<\/sup>. New moon on the 20th<\/sup>.\nFirst quarter on the 27th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Southern lunistice on the 5th<\/sup>.\nNorthward crossing on the 12th<\/sup>. Northern lunistice on the\n19th<\/sup>. Southward crossing on the 25th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apogee on the 12th<\/sup> at\n404,200 km or 251,200 mi. Perigee on the 25th<\/sup> at 368,500\nkm or 229,000 mi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Visibility<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs on the\n5th<\/sup>. It begins at 03:07 UT. The maximum eclipse is at\n04:30. It ends at 05:52. Visibility for the entire event is from\nAntarctica, part of the Pacific, most of the Americas, the Atlantic\nand westernmost parts of Africa. For most of Africa and western\nEurope, the event happens during moonset. For the northwestern U.S.\nand western Canada, it’s a moonrise eclipse. In a penumbral eclipse,\nthe moon passes through the outer part of Earth’s shadow. Careful\nobservers will see it darken and then brighten up again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notable conjunctions this month:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2nd<\/sup> \u2013 Moon & Antares,\n6.3d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5th<\/sup> \u2013 Moon & Jupiter,\n1.9d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6th<\/sup> \u2013 Moon & Saturn,\n2.5d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10th<\/sup> \u2013 Moon & Neptune,\n4.1d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11th<\/sup> \u2013 Moon & Mars,\n1.8d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12th<\/sup> \u2013 Venus &\nAldebaran, 1.0d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14th<\/sup> \u2013 Moon & Uranus,\n3.5d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17th<\/sup> \u2013 Moon &\nAldebaran, 3.7d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17th<\/sup> \u2013 Moon & Venus,\n3.0d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

19th<\/sup> \u2013 Moon & Mercury,\n3.9d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20th<\/sup> \u2013 Moon & Pollux,\n4.5d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

22nd<\/sup> \u2013 Moon & Regulus,\n4.1d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

26th<\/sup> \u2013 Moon & Spica,\n6.7d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

30th<\/sup> \u2013 Moon & Antares,\n6.2d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A comet from a far out orbit is visiting our part of the solar system this month. Comet C\/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) is a northern hemisphere object and may be seen with the naked eye in the northwest after sunset and in the northeast before sunrise. It sets in late evening and rises in early morning. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-59"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}