What's in the sky tonight?
May 23, 2013
-Starting from Saturn in the south-southeast as evening grows late, follow a diagonal line of five objects toward the lower left: Saturn, fainter Alpha Librae, the glaring Moon, Delta Scorpii, and Antares.
-Saturn (magnitude +0.2, in Libra) glows in the southeast during twilight, with Spica to its upper right and Arcturus twice as far to its upper left. It's highest in the south not long after dark.
Astro Picture of the Day:
May 23, 2013
Source: My Camera
This scene is found on the west beach on the Lake of Two Rivers in Algonquin Park. A canoe marks the foreground of the lake which has been cast an eerie green glow due to the northern lights roaming around in the distance. Also, a car drove by on the nearby highway whose headlights illuminated the midnight forest to create an intresting depth of field. There was no wind this night, and the water was perfectly still. It acted as if it was a mirror into the sky. The Northern Lights were caused by a geomagnetic storm that hit the earth May 17, 2013 due to an x-class flare that launched from the sun on May 15.