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Planet Parade Continues
25 June 2022 @ 03:00 - 06:00
Free
Stories From the Night of the Planet Parade – Read here, post event report.
ALL THE PLANETS are lined up in the morning sky. This is quite a rare situation, and is persisting for several weeks.
Join us on Saturday early morning on the 25th June, at our Manesar Astro Facility to observe the Planet Parade with several large telescopes lined up just for you.
We had organised a dawn observation on 29th May, when Mars and Jupiter were in conjunction.
The Dawn Planet Parade is still continuing and favourable till the beginning of July, after which Mercury will be difficult to spot.
What is unique now that the five planets that are visible with the naked eye are lined up in their natural order in the Solar System. Mercury is closest and Saturn is the farthest from the Sun. Mercury reaches its greatest morning (western) elongation on 16th June.
On Saturday, 25th June, the line-up of the planets will stretch from southern direction where Saturn will be visible, and going towards the eastern horizon where Mercury would be rising just before sunrise. The order of planets goes like this – Saturn in Capricornus, Neptune, Jupiter and Mars in Pisces, Uranus in Aries along with the crescent Moon, bright Venus in Taurus, below Pleiades and Mercury also in Taurus.
| Planet | Rising Time at Manesar | Constellation | Size | Magnitude | Disk Illumi. (Phase) |
| Saturn | 22:32 | Capricornus | 40″ | 0.61 | 100% |
| Neptune | 00:01 | Pisces | 2.3″ | 7.87 | 100% |
| Jupiter | 00:34 | Pisces | 40″ | -2.40 | 99% |
| Mars | 01:20 | Pisces | 7.0″ | 0.50 | 86% |
| Uranus | 02:35 | Aries | 3.5″ | 5.83 | 100% |
| Moon | 02:35 | Aries | 30″ | -10.57 | 15% |
| Venus | 03:28 | Taurus | 12″ | -3.92 | 84% |
| Astronomical Twilight – 03:52 | |||||
| Mercury | 04:08 | Taurus | 6.8″ | -0.18 | 56% |
| Nautical Twilight – 04:27 |
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| Civil Twilight – 04:59 | |||||
| Sunrise – 05:25 |
Several telescopes will be available for the available at our Astro Facility for your use.
- 16-Inch Aperture Telescope, Dobsonian,
- ‘ORANGE’ 8-Inch Aperture Telescope, Dobsonian,
- 14-Inch Celestron SCT on CGE-Pro mount,
- 8-Inch Celestron SCT on Atlas EQ6 mount.
We welcome you to come & observe the All Planet Parade at our Astro Facility.
Planet Parade from Ajay Talwar on Vimeo.