{"id":18836,"date":"2022-10-17T11:35:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T15:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/eyes-on-the-sky-update-oct-17-through-23\/"},"modified":"2022-10-17T11:35:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T15:35:07","slug":"eyes-on-the-sky-update-oct-17-through-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/eyes-on-the-sky-update-oct-17-through-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyes on the Sky Update: Oct. 17 through 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Eyes on the Sky Update<br \/>\nMonday, Oct. 17 &#8212; Sunday, Oct. 23<\/h4>\n<p>Monday, Oct. 17 \u2013 Last Quarter Moon occurs at 1:15 p.m. EDT, rises in northeast after 11:30 p.m., located east of stars Castor and Pollux of Gemini.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, Oct. 18 \u2013 Waning lunar crescent above Beehive star cluster of Cancer, look before 6 a.m. in east-southeast.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, Oct. 19 \u2013Big Dipper \u201cstanding\u201d on its handle in northeast, look after 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, Oct. 20 \u2013Albany Area Amateur Astronomers meet at MiSci (15 Nott Terrance Heights, Schenectady) at 7:30 p.m. for monthly program. Topic: Observing Exoplanets (planets around other stars) with Amateur Equipment. Speaker: Dr. Valerie Rapson, SUNY Oneonta. Free.<\/p>\n<p>Friday, Oct. 21 \u2013 Orionid meteor shower reaches maximum, should add 10-20 meteors per hour over background rate as seen from a dark location. Look eastward after 11 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, Oct. 22 \u2013 Thin lunar crescent east of Denebola, tail star of Leo, in east after 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, Oct. 23 \u2013 At 9 p.m., Saturn in south-southwest sky, Jupiter in southeast, and Mars just over the horizon in northeast.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: Richard Monda, assistant professor of Physics and Astronomy, publishes updates to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=HVCC+Eyes+on+the+Sky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HVCC Eyes on the Sky<\/a> video series weekly in the Campus Chronicle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 17 Oct 2022 11:35:07 +0000 by\u00a0r.monda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Eyes on the Sky Update Monday, Oct. 17 &#8212; Sunday, Oct. 23 Monday, Oct. 17 \u2013 Last Quarter Moon&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classifieds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}