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5 Sky Events This Week: Comet Buzzes Mars, False Dawn, Green Giant

Tuesday, October 1, 2013 23:59

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As the calendar turns to a new month, sky-watchers get a chance to see not only a sprinkling of shooting stars and some ghostly glows, but also a distant gas giant in its best appearance of 2013.

Watch the video: 5 Sky Events: This Week Comet Buzzes Mars, False Dawn, Green Giant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUVz4c2UapY

Comet buzzes Mars.

In the predawn skies on Tuesday, October 1, famed Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) will be barnstorming the red planet, appearing only 2 degrees apart from the planet—just a little more than the width of your thumb at an arm’s length.

Watch the video: Get Ready! Comet ISON to Sweep Closely Past Mars on October 1 – New Images http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu5T5Gj-MVM

Orionids kick-off.

Starting on the night of Wednesday, October 2, the annual Orionid meteor shower begins, peaking nearly three weeks later on October 21 and ending on November 7. Since the waning gibbous moon will be in the sky at peak time, washing out all but the brightest shooting stars, it’s best to look for the shower before then.

Uranus opposition.

On Thursday, October 3, the seventh planet in the solar system, Uranus, will be at official opposition—meaning that the outer planet will be at its biggest and brightest in the sky for 2013.

Zodiacal light.

At about an hour before sunrise on Thursday, October 3, and for the next two weeks, keen sky-watchers in the Northern Hemisphere can view one of the most elusive astronomical phenomena visible in the sky—the Zodiacal light.

Watch the video: Tonight’s Sky October 2013 – Constellations, Deep-Sky Objects, Planets and Events HD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g78IbcMYENg

Worlds form triangle.

After sunset on Sunday, October 6, look toward the very low southwestern horizon for a razor-thin crescent moon sandwiched between Saturn above and Mercury

Photos and text here:

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/30/5-sky-events-this-week-comet-buzzes-mars-false-dawn-green-giant/

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