This page shows a brief summary of what interesting things we can see in the sky this month.
A more detailed version of 'What's Up' this month is available as a downloadable Word document right at the bottom of this page.
February is a quiet month but there is a planetary conjunction on the 15th February.
The Sun
The sun is now approaching sunspot maximum, whereby spots can be been seen regularly.
The Moon
The phases of the Moon are as follows:
Darkest nights for observing will be from the 16th to the 24th of February.
Mercury was recently at Solar Conjunction so is not available currently.
Venus is a bright object (mag -3.9) in the sunset, it gets higher at the end of the month.
Mars is visible in Taurus. It fades from magnitude -0.3 to magnitude +0.4.
Jupiter is magnitude -0.2 in Pisces and getting lower each night .
Saturn is moving closer to the sunset and becoming more difficult to see.
Uranus is an evening object, the highest of the planets so best for observing.
Neptune is a difficult evening object conjoining with Venus on the 15th after 6:00 pm.
Comets
Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF should become bright enough to see with the naked eye early this month.
Meteors
No showers this month but sporadics are always possible.
Deep Sky
With Binoculars:
With a Telescope:
Television
The Sky at night - there are no upcoming programmes till April. But, here are all the past episodes that are available to watch, in case you missed any: BBC4 The Sky At Night
Satellites
The ISS is an evening object till the 4th then a morning object after the 16th of February.
Happy Viewing!
The detailed version of What's Up this month is available below by clicking the link:
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