<\/p>\n Both Mars and the moon<\/a> will appear to race one another over the eastern horizon in the hours that follow, with the Red Planet gaining a slight lead over its competitor as dawn breaks.<\/p>\n The stars<\/a> of the constellation Orion<\/a> will glitter to the right of the pair throughout the race, while the Bull of Taurus<\/a> watches on from above and Gemini watches from below, giving us a sneak peak at the starscape that will shine high overhead in the long winter nights a few months from now.<\/p>\n Celestron UpClose G2 10×50<\/p>\n \n (Image credit: Celestron)<\/p>\n Want to get a closer look at the moon? For around $50 you can grab these beginner binoculars<\/a> for better views of craters and seas on the lunar surface. 10x is enough for a closer look without worrying about excessive shakes during handheld observation.<\/p>\n _<\/p>\n Celestron UpClose G2 10×50 review<\/a><\/p>\n Look out for the subtle glow of earthshine illuminating the night side of the moon on Aug. 9, as sunlight scattered off our planet’s surface and atmosphere reflects onto the nearby lunar disk, revealing the ghostly outlines of its dark lunar seas.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n It’s one of the last chances we’ll get to gaze at Earth’s satellite ahead of its new moon phase on Aug. 12, when it will cross the face of the sun in the daytime sky to trigger a spectacular total solar eclipse<\/a>, which will be visible across parts of Greenland, Iceland and Spain.<\/p>\n Be sure to read our explainer article to discover everything you need to know about the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse<\/a>. We’ll also be bringing you live reports of totality<\/a> as the moon’s shadow sweeps over Greenland, where skywatching editor Daisy Dobrijevic will be watching from the deck of a HX Expeditions<\/a> cruise ship. Skywatching writer Anthony Wood will also be observing from central Spain, where he’s embedded with a group of citizen scientists from the Dynamic Eclipse Broadcast initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n Editor’s Note: If you would like to share your astrophotography with Space.com’s readers, then please send your photo(s), comments, and your name and location to spacephotos@space.com. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early risers will catch a spectacular sight in the predawn hours of Aug. 9, as the slender crescent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-587285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587285","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=587285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Celestron](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ojE7D7ksciZmVaxfNuq8rm.jpeg\")
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