{"id":908,"date":"2023-05-01T03:40:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T03:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/?p=908"},"modified":"2023-05-04T16:24:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T16:24:59","slug":"may-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/may-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Mars<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For northern\nhemisphere sky watchers, Orion is signaling that winter is long gone.\nThe hunter sets in the early evening. Southern hemisphere observers\ncan take this as a sign of winter. Venus is nearby. It’s close to the\nstar El Nath at the edge of Taurus and Auriga when May starts. Mars\nstarts the month close to Wasat in Gemini. A gibbous moon just past\nfirst quarter is south of Chertan in Leo. Saturn is fairly easy to\nsee before sunrise in Aquarius. Jupiter is emerging from solar\nconjunction into the morning sky. The best views at the start of the\nmonth are from about 25\u00b0 south. Mercury is almost at inferior\nconjunction, so you won’t see it when May starts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Venus\napproaches Gemini over the next nine evenings or so. It’s entering\nthe constellation as Mars leaves it. The red planet passed close to\nMebsuta last month. This month, it’s Venus’s turn. Mars passed very\nclose on the south side of the star in April. Venus will be a little\nfarther as it goes by the north side of the star. This month’s\nVenus-moon pairing is in the evening right in the heart of Gemini.\nSee them on the 23rd<\/sup>\nand 24th<\/sup>.\nThe moon is by Mars on the 25th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Venus\nhas a close call with Kappa Geminorum on the 30th<\/sup>.\nAs the end of May approaches, it becomes obvious that Mars is\nmarching right into the beehive in Cancer. What a wonderful sight\nthat’s going to be around June 4th<\/sup>\nand 5th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

See\nan almost full moon near Spica on May 4th<\/sup>.\nThe moon’s just past last quarter when it passes by Saturn on the\nmorning of the 13th<\/sup>.\nA very thin crescent moon is near Jupiter on the morning of the 17th<\/sup>.\nThe best views of the big planet continue to be from around 25\u00b0\nsouth. Mercury is below them by this time of the month. While the two\nplanets are rising earlier each morning until around the 22nd<\/sup>,\nthey’re both retrograde. That means they’re moving eastward compared\nto the stars behind them. So they appear to be dropping back toward\nthe sun. Mercury actually does start heading sunward after the 22nd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A few careful\nobservers may see Uranus emerge into the morning in the last few days\nof the month. Again, southern hemisphere sky watchers get the best\nview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The moon passes in\nfront of Porrima on May 3. The view is from southern South America,\nthe Falkland Islands, and South Georgia Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The moon passes through Earth’s outer shadow on the 5th. The penumbral eclipse lasts about four-and-a-quarter hours from 15:14 UT to 19:32. It will be a moonset event for the western Pacific and northeast Asia and a moonrise event for the southern Atlantic, most of Africa, most of Europe, and western Asia. All of the eclipse is visible for most of Asia, the Indian Ocean, Australia, and Antarctica. Penumbral eclipses are hard to see. The moon dims a little as the earth blocks some sunlight from reaching it directly. You may see a sort of gradient effect from the north side of the lunar disk to the south side with the moon being dimmer on the north side. Some color variation is possible too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nmoon’s almost at first quarter when it passes by Al Jabhah on the\n27th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For northern hemisphere sky watchers, Orion is signaling that winter is long gone. The hunter sets in the early evening. Southern hemisphere observers can take this as a sign of winter. Venus is nearby. It’s close to the star El Nath at the edge of Taurus and Auriga when May starts. Mars starts the month […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-62"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","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=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skycaramba.com\/monthly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}