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The Triangulum Galaxy is well placed

Dominic Ford, Editor
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The Triangulum Galaxy M33 (mag 5.8) will be well placed in the evening sky in coming weeks. On 15 October 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 San Diego , it is visible in the morning sky, becoming accessible around 19:17, when it reaches an altitude of 21° above your north-eastern horizon. It will then reach its highest point in the sky at 00:48, 87° above your southern horizon. It will be lost to dawn twilight around 05:51, 26° above your western horizon.

At a declination of 30°39'N, it is easiest to see from the northern hemisphere but cannot be seen from latitudes much south of 39°S.

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At magnitude 5.8, M33 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 M33 is as follows:

Object Right Ascension Declination Constellation Magnitude Angular Size
M33 01h33m50s 30°39'N Triangulum 5.8 0'00"

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.

The sky on 15 Oct 2019

The sky on 15 October 2019
Sunrise
06:50
Sunset
18:15
Twilight ends
19:38
Twilight begins
05:28

17-day old moon
Waning Gibbous

91%

17 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 08:51 14:02 19:14
Venus 08:11 13:37 19:03
Moon 19:07 01:42 08:24
Mars 05:43 11:40 17:38
Jupiter 11:28 16:29 21:29
Saturn 13:12 18:13 23:14
All times shown in PDT.

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.

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

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32.72°N
117.16°W
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