View Vallis Alpes<\/a><\/p>\nMoving through vast Virgo, 11th-magnitude asteroid 13 Egeria is passing near some stationary background stars tonight, offering an excellent chance to chart its motion over the course of a few hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n
You can begin looking for the main-belt world as soon as it\u2019s nice and dark, as Virgo is already high in the sky. Two hours after sunset, Virgo\u2019s brightest star, Spica, stands nearly 40\u00b0 high in the south. From this bright star, slide your telescope slowly upward (north) 5\u00b0. Now you\u2019re in Egeria\u2019s realm.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Check the chart above for the positions of stars down to roughly Egeria\u2019s magnitude. (Note that you may see even more stars in your scope, if you can pick up fainter ones.) Egeria is near a smattering of 9th- and 10th-magnitude suns; early in the evening, it\u2019s roughly 10\u2019 northwest of a magnitude 8.2 star and about 25\u2019 southeast of a magnitude 8.5 star. There\u2019s also a 10th-magnitude star about 6\u2019 to Egeria\u2019s southeast.<\/p>\n
Take a photo or sketch out the pattern you see, and then take some time to check out the other sky wonders on your list. Come back in a few hours \u2014 say, three \u2014 and snap another photo or make another sketch. Has one of the dots here moved just slightly? That\u2019s Egeria, sliding slowly to the southwest relative to the stationary background stars.<\/p>\n
Sunrise: 5:38 A.M.\u00a0
Sunset: 8:17 P.M.\u00a0
Moonrise: 2:01 P.M.\u00a0
Moonset: 2:09 A.M.
Moon Phase: Waxing gibbous (67%)
*Times for sunrise, sunset, moonrise, and moonset are given in local time from 40\u00b0 N 90\u00b0 W. The Moon\u2019s illumination is given at 10 P.M. local time from the same location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back to Article List Main-belt asteroid Egeria is sliding past several stationary background stars tonight, offering a chance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61,60,7882,82,44123],"class_list":["post-464615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-observing","tag-science","tag-sky-tonight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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