#hyades — Public Fediverse posts

Jupiter and Venus are getting quite close in the morning sky.

The first photo is a look along the horizon. Dawn is breaking, but the full moon is bright enough to put detail on the foreground trees. Orion is in the right half of the frame.

The second photo is a framing up higher in the sky. This wide-angle lens now captures Jupiter, Venus, Orion, Auriga (upper left) and the Hyades in Taurus (upper edge, just right of center)

BTW, Jupiter and Venus are in the constellation Gemini.

Yesterday morning:
https://universeodon.com/@KrajciTom/115004557138505719

Several mornings ago:
https://universeodon.com/@KrajciTom/114987394304690552

#NewMexico #Twilight #Morning #Photography #Astrophotography #Venus #Jupiter #Orion #Gemini #Taurus #Auriga #Hyades

Just over a week ago, @starstryder posted a wonderful piece on the life of open clusters. If you missed it, wander over here... https://astrodon.social/@starstryder/113507811810656081

This inspired me to do a quick one night tour of the features she described.

To my shame, I had never heard of the Hyades Cluster, so that was a particular adventure for me. It also proved too much of a challenge for my little Dwarf3 - the 3 degree FoV is just not quite enough to capture the whole cluster.

Now, these are not the greatest shots of these features - I had work the next day, so I had to cram everything into about 1 1/2 hours. Great astrophotography this is not. But what it is is a tour through time. It was, however, also a chance to test out the scheduling feature of the beta software for the Dwarf.

#astronomy #astrophotography #OpenClusters #Orion #Pleiades #Hyades #Dwarf3

Lovely sky right now, feels like we haven’t seen many stars lately. If you’re in the UK and #LookUp right now, you’ll see the #Pleiades and #Hyades clusters, the bright stars #Capella, #Aldebaran and #Betelgeuse (no, it hasn’t exploded yet), as well as #Jupiter. Here’s the view. #astronomy #space

See the planet #Venus glide past not one but two star clusters this month. Look west at dusk and find bright Venus high in the sky. Then, with binoculars, look on either side of it. To the right (in mid-northern latitudes) is the #Pleiades star cluster, which appears like a tiny Big Dipper. To the left is the #Hyades star cluster marked most notably by the bright orange star #Aldebaran. The cyan line with points/dates marks its location each night through the 20th.

📷: Stellarium simulation

Another very clear evening in #Bochum, Germany ... and so here is #ZTF again, close to a 9.75 mag. star and near #Aldebaran and the #Hyades: all images with a Panasonic #Lumix DMC-FZ300 at f/2.8 and various zoom settings (35 mm equivalent focal lengths given; images cropped moderately) - some more pictures are also in https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid0QviziYzpAr7KTrEenTFVBAjNRocgmVv9Ge6k4D91jdmEgrtFYUK3qbDqg8LdH3akl

Encore une semaine calme dans le ciel !
- La #Lune est au dernier quartier le lundi 13/02.
- La #comète C/2022 E3 (ZTF) cette semaine traverse la constellation du Taureau. Dans la nuit du 14 au 15, elle sera aux côtés de #Aldebaran en traversant l'amas ouvert des #Hyades
#ephemerides #astronomy #astronomie #Astrodon

Bonne semaine, bon ciel!

Moon near Mars January 30 and 31
Posted by Marcy Curran
https://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-near-mars-january-30-and-31-2023/

#moon #mars #astronomy #aldebaran #hyades #pleiades #orion #occultation

Il y a plus de 20 ans, je suis tombé amoureux de cette région du ciel, et pas que pour mon étoile favorite. Y en a-t-il de plus belle dans l'hémisphère Nord ?

Bon solstice d'hiver à toutes et à tous.

#Orion #Taurus #Betelgeuse #Pleiades #Hyades #Mars #Aldebaran #Rigel