News of the Week

πŸŒ— Moon

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

  • Planet Encounters:

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

πŸͺ 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, 2Β° 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

β˜€οΈ Solar Activity

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

Author: Martin Gembec