🌗 Moon

• Last Quarter: Tuesday, May 20 at 13:59 CEST

• Planet Encounters:

  • May 22–24 near Saturn 🪐 and Venus 🌟 in the morning sky
  • Best view: early Saturday – Moon 4° to the left of Venus

🪐 Planets

• Mercury: unobservable
• Venus (–4.8 mag): very bright, but low above the eastern horizon
• Saturn (1.2 mag): higher than Venus, but harder to see; ring appears edge-on
• Neptune: faint, 2° left of Saturn
• Uranus: closest to the Sun, unobservable
• Jupiter (–2 mag): low in the evening sky
• Mars (1 mag): high in the sky, in the constellation Cancer

☀️ Solar Activity

• Strong surge at the start of the week, then calmed down
• A new active region → possible strong flares and auroras 🌌
• Sunspots visible in SDO satellite images
• More at: Spaceweather.com, SolarHam, SpaceWeatherLive

Author: Martin Gembec