Base on the star chart software, Saturn will pass very near to M44 (Beehive Cluster) during Chinese New Year period... a good present for Chinese New Year.
So hope the sky will be clear.
Have a nice day.
Saturn pass very near M44 (Beehive Cluster)
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Saturn pass very near M44 (Beehive Cluster)
Hi,
Base on the star chart software, Saturn will pass very near to M44 (Beehive Cluster) during Chinese New Year period... a good present for Chinese New Year.
So hope the sky will be clear.
Have a nice day.
Base on the star chart software, Saturn will pass very near to M44 (Beehive Cluster) during Chinese New Year period... a good present for Chinese New Year.
So hope the sky will be clear.
Have a nice day.
Yang Weixing
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Thanks for the info, Weixing. Will look out for it.
Here is a screenshot from an astro software. It shows that M44 (Praesepe open cluster) and Saturn will be 1 degree and 2 mins apart on the night of Sunday 29 Jan 2006 (1st day of CNY). Of course, M44 is very large, so I suspect the outlying stars of the cluster will be nearer.
Hmm.. perhaps a low power wide-field view of maybe 30x-50x will be very good to see the rings of the planet and the whole cluster.
Here is a screenshot from an astro software. It shows that M44 (Praesepe open cluster) and Saturn will be 1 degree and 2 mins apart on the night of Sunday 29 Jan 2006 (1st day of CNY). Of course, M44 is very large, so I suspect the outlying stars of the cluster will be nearer.
Hmm.. perhaps a low power wide-field view of maybe 30x-50x will be very good to see the rings of the planet and the whole cluster.
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Hi,
Do a more detail look, the Saturn will pass by M44 (Beehive Cluster) from 27 Jan 2006 to 10 Feb 2006. The closest should be around 2 Feb 2006.
Have a nice day.
Do a more detail look, the Saturn will pass by M44 (Beehive Cluster) from 27 Jan 2006 to 10 Feb 2006. The closest should be around 2 Feb 2006.
Have a nice day.
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The sky was very clear tonight (Sat-Sun night) after about 10pm. Stars were bright and sharp! I managed to do quite a bit of observing from my home with large binoculars. It's amazing how many stars can be seen from the centre of urban S'pore on clear nights with well-mounted large binos.
I took this photo of Saturn near M44 (the Beehive Cluster a.k.a. Praesepe), just after midnight.
Canon EOS 350D with Tamron 75-300mm, at 300mm, f5.6,
ISO 1600, 1.6 seconds, tripod mounted.
Should have used an equatorial mount for a longer exposure, but too lazy to set it up.
I've labelled a few objects.
What's interesting is that Titan (mag 8.4) is visible just above Saturn at about 11 o'clock. They were 3 arc-minutes apart.
According to the planetarium software, Saturn is now 1.5 degrees away from M44. Saturn will be about 1 degree from M44 around CNY to 2 February 2006. For comparison purposes, the bright star to the right of Saturn, Delta-Cancri, is now 0.68 degrees from Saturn. So I wonder what the paring will look like then.
I also saw the entire paring through binos at 25x with a 2.5 deg field of view. Quite nice, must see!!
I think a 3.5 degree-wide view would have better framed them together, like the image below, which is cropped from the original photo.
Once again, thanks to Weixing for the alert.
I took this photo of Saturn near M44 (the Beehive Cluster a.k.a. Praesepe), just after midnight.
Canon EOS 350D with Tamron 75-300mm, at 300mm, f5.6,
ISO 1600, 1.6 seconds, tripod mounted.
Should have used an equatorial mount for a longer exposure, but too lazy to set it up.
I've labelled a few objects.
What's interesting is that Titan (mag 8.4) is visible just above Saturn at about 11 o'clock. They were 3 arc-minutes apart.
According to the planetarium software, Saturn is now 1.5 degrees away from M44. Saturn will be about 1 degree from M44 around CNY to 2 February 2006. For comparison purposes, the bright star to the right of Saturn, Delta-Cancri, is now 0.68 degrees from Saturn. So I wonder what the paring will look like then.
I also saw the entire paring through binos at 25x with a 2.5 deg field of view. Quite nice, must see!!
I think a 3.5 degree-wide view would have better framed them together, like the image below, which is cropped from the original photo.
Once again, thanks to Weixing for the alert.
