Watch the lunar occultation of Uranus on Sept. 14

Relying on the place on this planet you will be Wednesday evening (Sept. 14), you might be able to see Uranus disappear. (Don’t be concerned; it will be again once more just a few hours later.)

On Wednesday, the sixth planet from the solar will seem to go instantly behind Earth’s moon, going utterly out of sight for 3 and a half hours. The nice disappearing act, also referred to as the lunar occultation of Uranus, begins round 4:41 p.m. ET (2041 GMT) and ends by 8:11 p.m. ET (0011 GMT on Sept. 15), in accordance with In-the-sky.org. Nevertheless, solely viewers in Europe, northern Africa and western Asia might be on the precise proper angle to see the phantasm work.

Viewers in these areas will nonetheless want binoculars or a telescope to see the present, as Uranus is just not a naked-eye planet. (Test this map, courtesy of In-the-sky.org, to see which areas can have the perfect view.)

In case you are not in a type of locations or you do not have a telescope, do not fret; you’ll be able to watch the occultation stay from Rome due to the Digital Telescope Challenge, which can start streaming the occasion at 4:45 p.m. ET (2045 GMT).

Occultation refers to any astronomical occasion wherein one object seems hidden behind one other. This phenomenon is barely totally different from an eclipse, which happens when one object casts its shadow instantly onto one other – similar to when the moon’s shadow falls over Earth throughout a photo voltaic eclipse.

From Earth, lunar occultations are probably the most generally seen, because the moon looms so massive in our sky. Nevertheless, the moon’s shut proximity to Earth additionally signifies that its place within the sky might seem barely totally different relying on which a part of the planet you are watching from. As such, all lunar occultations are seen solely to slender swaths of the world that occur to have the precise proper viewing angle.

Happily, these occasions are frequent, so one other lunar disappearing act is all the time simply across the nook. The final lunar occultation of Uranus that was seen from america and Canada occurred simply final month, on Aug. 18, Stay Science’s sister web site Area.com reported. Uranus emerged triumphant on that evening, and it certainly will tomorrow, as properly.

Initially printed on Stay Science.

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