Scheduled air date: 2007 Mar 26-Apr 01
The giant planet Jupiter presently appears near a giant star, Antares, in the
morning sky. Next week the Waning Gibbous Moon will join them, appearing next to
Antares on April 7th, and then forming a triangle with the star and planet on
the 8th.
(Shown about an hour before sunset on the mornings of
April 6th-10th for
mid-Northern latitudes.)
Next week's Full Moon on the night of April 2nd is the farthest, and therefore
smallest and faintest, Full Moon of the year. It will be nearly 30000
miles/48000 km farther than the nearest Full Moon of 2007, which occurs on the
night of Oct 25th.
(The rotation of each Moon image above is shown for the
time of transit—when the Moon appears mid-way from East to West. North is toward
the top of the image.)
If you wish to view illustrations for other episodes, please see our Star Gazer Illustrated directory.
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Illustrations on this page were created using
TheSky6 Astronomy
Software, an advanced desktop planetarium program designed for Windows
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