A practical guide to stargazing<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\u201cFor the morning apparition in autumn, look toward the east,\u201d says Skiff. At this time of year, it is better to do so 90 minutes to two hours before sunrise. \u201cIn this case, the Milky Way will be nearly overhead, stretching from northwest to southeast, the two bands forming a huge X-shaped pattern of light in the sky,\u201d says Skiff.<\/p>\n
How can you tell the difference between the Milky Way and the zodiacal light? \u201cThe Milky Way starclouds have a clumpy or mottled and grainy texture, whereas the ‘zodi’ is very smooth and diffuse,\u201d says Skiff. \u201cRemarkably, the Milky Way is not as bright as the zodiacal light. Even thin clouds or moonlight will wash it out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How to see the zodiacal light While the zodiacal light is best seen at lower latitudes, its visibility…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[151871,151874,151875,151870,85,46,151876,141,145,151869,151868,151873,151872],"class_list":["post-301109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-best-time-to-see-the-zodiacal-light","tag-false-dawn-sky","tag-false-dusk-sky","tag-how-to-see-the-zodiacal-light","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-night-sky-events-march","tag-science","tag-space","tag-what-is-the-zodiacal-light","tag-zodiacal-light","tag-zodiacal-light-late-winter","tag-zodiacal-light-spring-equinox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}