Aug 27 - Morning Moon

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This week, watch for a morning moon The moon is now rising later at night. Beginning Tuesday morning, shortly after sunrise, you have an opportunity to see the moon floating pale and beautiful against a blue sky. Look west! Read more. Photo: Buddy Puckhaper of Charleston, South Carolina. It's about the moon phase you'll see Tuesday morning. What is a waning gibbous moon? This week's moon phase is waning gibbous. The word gibbous comes from a Latin root meaning humpbacked. It's a moon that appears more than half lighted, but less than full. Read more.   The next last quarter moon will fall on September 2 or 3, depending on your time zone. Photo: Lunar 101-Moon Book. Find the Teapot, and look toward the galaxy's center With the moon waning now, it's time to go out in the country to witness the glorious Milky Way. Want to locate the direction to the galaxy's center? This post points the way. Ruslan Merzlyakov of RMS Photography calls this image The Star Catcher. He wrote: "One of my biggest night-sky photographs, consisting of 50 images and making a total resolution of 258 megapixels. Shot during 2 nights between August 7-10." We've got a landing site on asteroid Ryugu The lander for the Hayabusa2 mission at asteroid Ryugu is due to touch down on October 3. Now the site has been chosen! This Japanese mission will collect samples from the asteroid and bring them back to Earth. Read more. This just in ... Adrien Louis Mauduit of Noctilucent Clouds Around the World wrote this morning: "Yes, you're not hallucinating. I thought I was last night. Still bright noctilucent clouds visible almost all night in Senja, Norway (69 degrees north)." It's late in the season to catch them. The dark clouds here are ordinary clouds, by the way, but the bright ones are noctilucent, or night-shining clouds. Read more.

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Is this the moon? No, it's Venus Prabhakaran A of the UAE captured Venus when farthest from the sun on our sky's dome, August 17. Venus is now catching up to Earth in its smaller orbit. It'll pass between us and the sun on October 26. Between now and then, people peering through telescopes will see Venus wane in phase, like a tiny, featureless crescent moon.

Watch for a morning moon A daytime moon is pale against the blue sky. Look closely this week, especially in the hours after sunrise. Look west! You'll see it. Our friend Jenney Disimon in Sabah, North Borneo, caught this daytime moon last January 4. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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