© Digitised Sky Survey (DSS); Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II)

NGC 2808 is well placed

Dominic Ford, Editor
From the Deep Sky feed

Objects: NGC2808
Please wait
Loading 0/4
Click and drag to rotate
Mouse wheel to zoom in/out
Touch with mouse to dismiss
The sky at

Across much of the world, the globular cluster NGC 2808 (mag 6.2) in Carina will be well placed in the evening sky in coming weeks. On 8 February it will reach its highest point in the sky at around midnight local time, and on subsequent evenings it will culminate four minutes earlier each day.

From Fairfield , however, it is not observable because it lies so far south that it never rises above the horizon.

At a declination of 64°51'S, it is easiest to see from the southern hemisphere but cannot be seen from latitudes much north of 5°N.

Begin typing the name of a town near to you, and then select the town from the list of options which appear below.

At magnitude 6.2, NGC2808 is quite faint, and certainly not visible to the naked eye, but can be viewed through a pair of binoculars or small telescope.

The position of NGC2808 is as follows:

Object Right Ascension Declination Constellation Magnitude Angular Size
NGC2808 09h12m00s 64°51'S Carina 6.2 9'00"

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.

The sky on 8 Feb 2018

The sky on 8 February 2018
Sunrise
06:54
Sunset
17:18
Twilight ends
18:51
Twilight begins
05:21

22-day old moon
Waning Crescent

30%

22 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 06:48 11:42 16:36
Venus 07:23 12:36 17:49
Moon 01:14 06:28 11:37
Mars 02:18 07:03 11:48
Jupiter 00:56 05:57 10:58
Saturn 04:22 09:01 13:40
All times shown in EST.

Source

The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE430 planetary ephemeris published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

This event was automatically generated by searching the ephemeris for planetary alignments which are of interest to amateur astronomers, and the text above was generated based on an estimate of your location.

Image credit

© Digitised Sky Survey (DSS); Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II)

Share

Fairfield

Latitude:
Longitude:
Timezone:

41.14°N
73.26°W
EST

Color scheme