3/11/2023 0 Comments Cassiopeia starLocal schools from Fremont, Sacred Heart, Santa Anita, Hollister High, to San Benito Jr. Shortest day of the year.ĭec 22: Moon passes 4° north of Mars, 6 p.m.ĭec 27: Moon passes 0.6° south of Pluto at 7 a.m.ĭec 28: Moon passes 1.0° south of Venus at 6 p.m.ĭec 31: Moon passes 4° south of Neptune 1 p.m. I whish you all Season Greetings, and for the best evening skies ever.ĭec 18: Last Quarter Moon occurs at 8:57 p.m.ĭec 18: Moon is at perigee (230,072 miles from Earth) 12:25 p.m.ĭec 21: Winter Solstice for the Northern Hemisphere begins at 8:19 p.m. Although I don’t seem to have any control over this timing. I always enjoy the rain, so I have a tendency to wish for rain in the daytime and clear skies at night. Let’s see what December skies bring us for viewing. And just to make it a little harder, when it is in the M shape, I guess you could use stars number two and three to find your Pole Star. Counting from left to right, use the number three and four stars to draw an imaginary line to help locate Polaris. If you look at Cassiopeia when in its W shape, you will see five main stars. There aren’t many bright stars around that area with Polaris so it should be easy to find. Not as good as Ursa Major, but it will get you close. At times when Ursa Major is on the low side, next to the horizon, trees or low lying haze may prevent you from using its two pointer stars to find the Pole Star. So it whirls around the Pole, and Cassiopeia has to spend half of every day upside down.Ĭassiopeia and Ursa Major are the two brightest of the “circumpolar” constellations, and they whirl around opposite to each other. As punishment she was tied to her throne, which was set close to the Pole of the sky. Cassiopeia was one of the bad characters. To the Greeks it was neither one, but a chair. People have been known to argue about whether it is a W or an M! Of course it depends on which way you are facing, and which position it is in as it revolves around the Pole Star. The reason is its easily recognizable shape: like the letter W. It comes in fourth in popularity after the Big Dipper, Orion, and the Pleiades. This article was contributed by community member David Baumgartner as part of a local series on astronomy.Ĭassiopeia is one of the groups of stars known to many people.
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