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Night sky calendar for stargazing
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Night - Skies
Major events for stargazers in the monthly night sky.
JULY 2005

Shorter nights with  the Milky Way running almost North-South. A  poor evening showing of planets again. Saturn is in conjunction with the Sun while Jupiter  is low in the Western sky. Lyra and Cygnus Hercules now  offer popular deep-sky targets.

Mars Rovers continue to collect valuable data.

Deep Impact crashes into Come Tempel 1 on 4th July

Comet C2/2004 Q2  Machholz  is  in Coma Berenices but dimming at mag. 12  and moving away.  Comet 9P Tempel (mag. 10)  is in Virgo near Jupiter.
Use links to sky charts below or   NASA Comet Site    for current comet locations and data.
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  Moon


  Comets

6th...... New Moon                          21st..Full Moon
4th.......Deep Impact colides with Comet TEMPEL 1... any flashes at impact?
13th.....Moon occults Jupiter (South America and Antartica)
18th.....Moon occults Antares (Central America)
29th.....Aquarid meteor showers peak
No sky chart ? Then go to:

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U.K. Mid-month Database
Sun        Mercury       Venus       Mars       Jupiter       Saturn

Magnitude
Rises
Due South
Sets
Size (arcsec)
Location
-26.8
0359
1206
2011

Gemini
-3.7
0628
1402
2131
11.6
Leo
-0.2
2319
0553
1228
10.1
Pisces
0.77
0630
1347
12105
8.9
Cancer
-1.9
1126
1709
2258
35
Virgo
+0.2
0443
1235
2033
16.4
Cancer
Times are Universal Time (UT).  Add +1 hr. for B.S.T.
Click here for Sun, Moon and
Earth data applet by J Giesen.
Click here for a Planet Finder applet.
Skyviewcafe.com applets
Topical News and Links
NASA Deep Impact Mission is still on course to collide with Comet Tempel on 4 July.
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Last Updated: 4 May  2005
visitors since March 2003
Topical News and Links Archive
Cassini-Huygens spacecraft zones in on Saturn for increasingly spectacular images.
Kuiper Belt planetoid 2004 DW of some 900 miles diameter is discovered.
Europe's Rosetta spacecraft sets off to comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko for lander Philae's descent in Nov. 2014.
Opportunity finds evidence of previous standing water on Mars.
Asteroid 2004 FH gives Earth a close pass at 24000 miles on March 18th. Animation.
New planetoid Sedna slow spin mystery deepens with no finding of a tidal locked moon.
Unusual meteorite found in Yemen in 1980 is probably a piece of  Phobus, a moon of Mars.
Cassini / Huygens probe arrives at Saturn with super images of the rings.
Asteroid 4179 Toutatis fast approaches Earth...images
Huygens probe predicted descent to Titan
Asteroid 2004 MN4 is closest Earth impact prediction to date.

 

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