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NGC 2403 is well placed

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NGC 2403 (mag 8.9), a spiral galaxy in Camelopardalis will be well placed in the evening sky in coming weeks. On 15 January 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 Cambridge , it is visible all night because it is circumpolar. It will be highest in the sky at 23:40, 66° above your northern horizon. At dusk, it will become visible at around 17:47 (EDT), 38° above your north-eastern horizon. It will be lost to dawn twilight at around 05:57, 36° above your north-western horizon.

At a declination of 65°36'N, it is easiest to see from the northern hemisphere but cannot be seen from latitudes much south of 4°S.

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At magnitude 8.9, NGC2403 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 NGC2403 is as follows:

Object Right Ascension Declination Constellation Magnitude Angular Size
NGC2403 07h36m50s 65°36'N Camelopardalis 8.9 0'00"

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.

The sky on 15 Jan 2020

The sky on 15 January 2020
Sunrise
07:09
Sunset
16:35
Twilight ends
18:15
Twilight begins
05:29

20-day old moon
Waning Gibbous

59%

20 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 07:33 12:07 16:42
Venus 09:06 14:24 19:41
Moon 21:15 03:59 10:31
Mars 03:52 08:31 13:11
Jupiter 06:16 10:48 15:21
Saturn 07:05 11:44 16:24
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.

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

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42.38°N
71.11°W
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