What's in the Night Sky: February 2024 | BBC Sky at Night Magazine

What's in the Night Sky: February 2024 | BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Pete Lawrence and Paul Abel reveal what to see in the night sky in the Northern Hemisphere throughout February 2024, including the best comets, clair-obscure effects on the Moon, Orion, Gemini and star clusters. 

Clair-obscure effects: The continuous interplay of sunlight and shadow through its changing phases provides a myriad of opportunities to see faces, eyes, cities, alphabet letters—almost anything you might imagine. Lunar enthusiasts call them clair-obscur effects, derived from the French words for "light" and "shadow." (Source: Sky & Telescope Magazine)

00:00 Intro

00:13 Mercury, Venus and Mars

02:23 Jupiter and Saturn

03:41 Uranus and Neptune

06:22 Comets

11:25 Einstein Crater

13:34 Lunar X and V, Jewelled Handle

15:31 Orion

16:30 Castor and Pollux

17:50 M35

19:05 Ursa Major

20:15 Leo and the Sickle

22:00 Beehive Cluster

23:06 M67

25:08 Hydra

Video Credit: BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Duration: 30 minutes

Release Date: Jan. 31, 2024

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