🌙 Moon and Jupiter close in the sky

In Issue #130, we give you all things Moon, including several close approaches between the Moon and Jupiter, and the longest Moon phase in 2024.

Issue #130 ©iStockphoto.com/Deniz ilgar The Moon and Jupiter Get Close Around January 18, the Moon will buddy up with Jupiter in the night sky. You can catch the planet next to the half-lit-up Moon just after First Quarter. It will be the first in a string of close approaches over the course of the next four months. See what it will look like from your location Biggest Eclipse Miss of 2024 The New Moon missed the Sun in the sky by about 5 degrees this month, making it the biggest solar eclipse 'miss' this year. Why was it a big eclipse miss? ©iStockphoto.com/MEGiordano_Photography Longest Moon Phase of 2024 The Moon will take 8 days, 5 hours, and 24 minutes to go from Full on January 25 to Third Quarter on February 2. That's the longest time between two primary Moon phases this year. Why is it the longest Moon phase? timeanddate.com was launched in 1998 and is the world's leading website for time, date, and astronomy-related tools, services, and articles. Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up here. Don't want this? Unsubscribe. This email was sent to vsinha.vs.mntfy1@blogger.com  Why did I get this? Unsubscribe from this list Time and Date AS · Kanalsletta 4 · Stavanger, Rogaland 4033 · Norway