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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 14 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 Ashburn , it is visible all night. It will become visible at around 19:35 (EDT), 23° above your eastern horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. It will then reach its highest point in the sky at 01:10, 81° above your southern horizon. It will be lost to dawn twilight at around 06:13, 29° 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 14 Oct 2020

The sky on 14 October 2020
Sunrise
07:16
Sunset
18:32
Twilight ends
20:01
Twilight begins
05:47

27-day old moon
Waning Crescent

2%

27 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 09:05 14:06 19:07
Venus 04:09 10:36 17:03
Moon 04:20 11:08 17:45
Mars 18:37 00:57 07:17
Jupiter 14:10 18:55 23:39
Saturn 14:33 19:23 00:12
All times shown in EDT.

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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39.04°N
77.49°W
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