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Good morning, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "Mars in Taurus." Look for the home of Perseverance and the Pleiades at nightfall and early evening, for that’s when the twosome is highest up for the night (they were closest last night). Mars and the Pleiades sink westward as evening deepens into late night, so it might be best to spot the close encounter at early evening. The duo stays out until around midnight at mid-northern latitudes, or mid-evening at temperate latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere.
If you’d like confirmation that what you’re seeing really is the Pleiades, look for three medium-bright stars in a short, straight row: the easy-to-spot Belt of Orion, the Hunter. You can star-hop to the right from Orion’s Belt stars – through Aldebaran – to Mars and the Pleiades.
If you’d like confirmation that what you’re seeing really is the Pleiades, look for three medium-bright stars in a short, straight row: the easy-to-spot Belt of Orion, the Hunter. You can star-hop to the right from Orion’s Belt stars – through Aldebaran – to Mars and the Pleiades.
APOD: 2021 March 4 - Mars in Taurus
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Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Thursday, March 4, 2021 entitled "Mars in Taurus."
Image: Mars in Taurus - Image Credit & Copyright - Petr Horalek - Institute of Physics in Opava
Explanation: You can spot Mars in the evening sky tonight. Now home to the Perseverance rover, the Red Planet is presently wandering through the constellation Taurus, close on the sky to the Seven Sisters or Pleiades star cluster. In fact this deep, widefield view of the region captures Mars near its closest conjunction to the Pleiades on March 3. Below center, Mars is the bright yellowish celestial beacon only about 3 degrees from the pretty blue star cluster. Competing with Mars in color and brightness, Aldebaran is the alpha star of Taurus. The red giant star is toward the lower left edge of the frame, a foreground star along the line-of-sight to the more distant Hyades star cluster. Otherwise too faint for your eye to see, the dark, dusty nebulae lie along the edge of the massive Perseus molecular cloud, with the striking reddish glow of NGC 1499, the California Nebula, at the upper right.
Lacuna J - Taurus |Lyrics|
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Image: Mars in Taurus - Image Credit & Copyright - Petr Horalek - Institute of Physics in Opava
Explanation: You can spot Mars in the evening sky tonight. Now home to the Perseverance rover, the Red Planet is presently wandering through the constellation Taurus, close on the sky to the Seven Sisters or Pleiades star cluster. In fact this deep, widefield view of the region captures Mars near its closest conjunction to the Pleiades on March 3. Below center, Mars is the bright yellowish celestial beacon only about 3 degrees from the pretty blue star cluster. Competing with Mars in color and brightness, Aldebaran is the alpha star of Taurus. The red giant star is toward the lower left edge of the frame, a foreground star along the line-of-sight to the more distant Hyades star cluster. Otherwise too faint for your eye to see, the dark, dusty nebulae lie along the edge of the massive Perseus molecular cloud, with the striking reddish glow of NGC 1499, the California Nebula, at the upper right.
Lacuna J - Taurus |Lyrics|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoBS3aWLvAs
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs SMSgt Lawrence McCarter Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen LTC (Join to see) SCPO Morris Ramsey MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Sgt Albert Castro PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SSG Stephen Rogerson SSG Samuel Kermon SSG Franklin Briant SP5 Geoffrey Vannerson SMSgt David A Asbury A1C Riley Sanders SSG William Jones CPT (Join to see) SGM Bill Frazer
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