The full August moon reaches (August 3), after the moon passes heavily to Jupiter and Saturn in the sky.
The moon will officially be completed on August 3 at 11:59 a.m. EDT (15:59 GMT), according to NASA’s SkyCal. For New York City observers, the full moon just after 8:35 p.m., while the sun sets at 8:08 p.m. local time that day.
Full moons take position when the moon is precisely in the opposite aspect of the Earth with respect to the sun. If the moon passes through the Earth’s shadow, we see a lunar eclipse; However, this does not take up position each and every month because the moon’s orbit is tilted, so the moon regularly overlooks the shadow. Full moons take up position every 29.5 days, which is a little longer than the orbital era of the moon. The explanation is that the Earth moves around the sun, so that through the time the moon reaches the same position it was when it last passed, the Earth is no longer directly between the moon and the sun.
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On August 1, the 12-day moon will appear to be near Jupiter, passing about 3 lunar diameters of the planet, or degrees one and one, depending on the site of the sky In-the-sky.org. The two bodies will be in conjunction, sharing the same celestial length, at 7:32 p.m. EDT (2332 GMT). For sky watchers in New York, it’s about 24 minutes after the moon leaves at 7:08 p.m. local time; the sun doesn’t set until 8:10 p.m., so it will be difficult to spot Jupiter during the conjunction because the sky will be bright at all times.
After sunset, Jupiter is bright enough to be one of the first visual “stars” at dusk. Around 8:30 p.m. in New York, the two will be visual about 14 degrees above the eastern horizon, with the moon below and to the right of Jupiter. The moon and Jupiter will form a triangle with the planet Saturn. Saturn will rise around 7:27 p.m. and mark the left corner of the triangle.
The next day (August 2), the moon will pass through Saturn, although on the east coast of the United States, the conjunction occurs the day, at 09:08 EDT (13:08 GMT). But once the moon returns, Saturn and Jupiter will cluster in the sky. 8:30 p.m. in New York, Saturn will be about 11 degrees above the southeast horizon, which will be visual when the sky darkens after sunset. Meanwhile, the moon will be to the left of Saturn and Jupiter will be to the left of the moon.
If you’re in Honolulu, the conjunction time will be in the sky before sunrise on August 2 at 3:10 a.m. local time. The moon will pass about 2 degrees south of Saturn and be above the southwest horizon. Both will be about 24 degrees above sea level.
On the night of the full moon, Mercury will be a “morning star” at 4:42 a.m. on August 3 in New York, according to Heavens-Above.com. The sun is at 5:55 a.m. and at 5:30 a.m., the inner planet will be about 8 degrees above the east-northeast horizon in the constellation Gemini, so it’s a challenge to detect it before the sky becomes too bright.
Venus, meanwhile, will rise much earlier than Mercury, at 2:38 a.m. local time in New York, and will be in the constellation Taurus. Venus is bright enough to be easy to locate and, with a magnitude of -4.3, will look like the brightest “star” in the neighborhood. (Magnitude is a measure of brightness, with negative numbers indicating the brightest objects). But unlike stars, planets don’t twinkle, they have a tendency to shine in constant light. At 5:30 a.m., the planet will be 31 degrees above the horizon.
Mars, meanwhile, rises in New York at 11:07 p.m. On August 3 and peaked around 5:22 a.m. The planet is in the constellation Pisces, and since Pisces is made up of weak stars, Mars will glow with its reddish hue and relative brightness.
Although the full moon has a tendency to overwhelm weaker stars, asterisms (or star motifs) such as the Summer Triangle, which is made up of the stars Vega, Deneb and Altair, will be prominent and trouble-free. About an hour and part after sunset in the northern hemisphere, you can look almost directly upward to locate Vega, which, in the northern mid-latitudes, is at an altitude between 80 and 88 degrees (depending on the distance north or south). are declining by 48 states). Meanwhile, the constellation of Leon, the lion will lie to the west.
Approximately 21.30 local time at the mid-north latitudes of Scorpius, the visual scorpion to the south, just below Ophiuchus, the carrier of snakes. Scorpius can be seen looking for Antares, a bright reddish star that marks the heart of the scorpion.
Ursa Major, the big bear, will be in the northwest after sunset. By following the “pointers” – the two stars at the front of the Big Dipper bowl – towards Polaris, the northern star, you can continue and hit the W Cassiopeia-shaped constellation. With the care of the Big Dipper, you can “form an arc with Arcturus” along the way until you succeed in Bootes’ eponymous star, the Shepherd.
The full moon of August, according to the old farmer’s almanac, is known as the moon of sturgeon. The call probably came here, either from settlers and other Algonquin-speaking people in northeastern North America, as sturgeons are local to Europe and America.
But not all Aboriginal teams in the region use the term. The Ojibwe, whose classical territory lies in what is now southeastern Canada, near the Great Lakes, have called the eighth full moon of the year Blackberry Moon, which can also happen in July. The Ontario Crees called the full August moon “Flying Up Moon” because it was when young birds flew. In the Pacific Northwest, the Haida called it the salmon moon, according to Dolly Garza’s e-book “Tlingit Moon – Tide”.
In China, this year, the full moon of August will arrive in the sixth month, Heyuo, or Lotus Month, for the flowering of such flowers.
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