You can enjoy a truly memorable sight on Friday evening: thanks to a special moonrise, the night sky will paint a different picture.
It will be worth staying awake longer on April 26, when a particularly beautiful combination will be observed in the night sky. In the announcement sent to MTI by the Svábhegy Observatory, it is stated that on this day a the rising Moon comes into close proximity to the star Antares.
A special moonrise
The sky on Friday after 11 p.m will be worth spying the moon because then it will be in close conjunction with the brightest star of Scorpius, the 1st magnitude red supergiant, or the star Antares, at 36 arcseconds. According to the information, it is in Budapest The star Antares rises in the southeast at 11 p.m., the 91 percent phase, and a nearly full moon follows after a good 5 minutes then.
The interesting thing about the conjunction is that while it looks like only a close approach from Hungary, in the more eastern regions of the Earth, the Moon will also cover Antares.
The special moonrise will be observed around midnight on Friday eveningthemotioncloud / Getty Images Hungary
Visible in clear weather
If you want to be a part of this special moonrise, it’s good to know how to observe it open and clear horizon required. At such a spot, even a simple hand-held telescope will provide a truly memorable sight glittering in all the colors of the rainbow near-horizon Antares, and the proximity of the reddish lunar disc flattened by atmospheric refraction.
The pair will be easily visible with the naked eye around midnight.
As revealed by the Svábhegyi Csillagwyszálló, Antares is often mistaken for the With planet Mars. As it was written, this is also where her name of Greek origin comes from, which is none other than Anti-Árés, i.e. Ellen-Mars. It is useful to know that Antares is all kinds of near the horizon can appear in other colors, which only appears as such due to the refracting effect of the Earth’s atmosphere.
According to astronomers, the celestial body is also very special from an astrophysical point of view, as it is a huge red giant star, the diameter of which is 800 times that of the Sun.
We can also enjoy celestial phenomena that are not typical here
As a matter of fact, there is no shortage of miracles in Hungary. THE we wrote about it a few days agothat we can see, for example, the aurora borealis more often at home. This spectacular phenomenon is caused by the fact that the particles of the solar wind are deflected by the Earth’s magnetic field and directed towards the poles. Here they meet the denser layers of the atmosphere and the the collision of particles triggers the light phenomenon. This year, approaching the maximum of solar activity, the aurora borealis was observed several times in March.
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