What's Up for July 2015

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What's Up for July 2015

Take a grand tour of the Milky Way this month – with binoculars or a telescope.

Credit: JPL/NASA

Source: NASA/JPL - Videos

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Tonight's Sky: July 2015

Shownotes

Nebulae and star clusters await summer skywatchers.

Credit: STScI/NASA

Source: HubbleSite - Tonight's Sky

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2 weeks ago (around July 1st), I seen the Venus-Jupiter conjunction in the western horizon after sunset and it seemed to form a "gigantic star", then the planets "danced" further apart. Currently, Pluto is opposite the Sun, so when the sunsets, Pluto rises in the eastern horizon, and you need a telescope to see Pluto or its moons like Charon.

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you need a telescope to see Pluto or its moons like Charon.

To see Pluto you need a fairly large telescope but all it will show is a star like point of light. To see Charon you need the kind of telescope available only to professional observatories. To see Pluto's other moons you need the Hubble Space Telescope.