The Night Sky | July 2024 | Comet 13/P Olbers | T Coronae Borealis Nova Update | Aquarids Meteors

Let's explore our night sky with an update on a star about to go nova, a comet at it's brightest, and a meteor shower for the Southern Hemisphere. Be sure to let us know what you're excited to see this month and any questions you may have. Clear skies!
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Timestamps:
0:00 T Coronae Borealis Nova
1:06 Southern Delta Aquarids Meteor Shower
2:23 The Moon
3:41 The Planets
4:36 Comet 13/P Olbers
5:45 The Ring Nebula
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[@bullthrush]

Great rundown, thank you. Hoping T CrB does it's thing before it gets too far west.

[@LateNightAstronomy]

I know. I 've started to think the same thing. I'm going to keep updates on it every month but I really hope it goes by September.

[@jwrobich]

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[@LateNightAstronomy]

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[@claytonferguson7944]

Love this! Really nice synopsis of the month’s activities.

[@LateNightAstronomy]

I'm glad you enjoyed this video. I put these out every month and hope you continue to find them useful!

[@toojeffcjs]

❤❤ This gave me the Star Hustler vibe

[@post107]

You are brilliant Your videos are concise and helpful for stargazing for the month

[@LateNightAstronomy]

I really appreciate you taking the time to let me know that! Take care and clear skies!

[@bulbal100]

All this year was terrible for me to photograph DSOs because of clouds. Hopefully more clear skies rest of the year.

[@LateNightAstronomy]

I'm sorry to hear that! Hoping for clear skies heading your way.

[@post107]

You are brilliant Your videos are concise and helpful for stargazing for the month The other night the Milky Way was magnificent

[@LateNightAstronomy]

I was out observing globular clusters in and around the milky way a few days ago. The Southern sky is beautiful this time of year.

[@philipfontaine8964]

Good video, thanks for sharing this.

[@LateNightAstronomy]

My pleasure! I hope you are able to get out and enjoy the night sky this month!

[@lumenlarry6197]

Love the content and presentation! Great job!!

[@LateNightAstronomy]

Thank you so much!

[@AmatureAstronomer]

Neat stuff.

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A great video thank you so much.

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[@BCHLking]

Awesome video!

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I too, just found channel. Good rundown, have subscribed.

[@LateNightAstronomy]

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Thank you!

[@erichowry9356]

Love the sky this time of year! So much to see! Great job/video!

[@LateNightAstronomy]

Thank you! The summer sky is amazing, particularly towards the South as the milky way slowly rises throughout the night.

[@jonathangilliland9177]

August 18th... go out and look up...

[@LateNightAstronomy]

What are you hoping to see on the 18th?

[@k.h.1587]

I was splitting the double double in my c8 , barely at 78x and more easily at 92x. Then i decided to swing the scope to another part of the sky and knocked my 22mm LVW off the flat part of wedge right in front of the base. Not the smartest place for a chunky eyepiece like that, I think it was my focus motor or its cable that got it the optics survived but the barrel got dented, so no more 1.25 filter use, as well as a rattle that i can only defeat by removing the red trim ring, and i rather not do that, so the resale value is way down now. Good thing I also have a 24mm ES68 which i later used with my celestron/baader OIII on m57. Note this was the first time I had used a scope in 3 years, so it was a bummer to be rewarded by damaging a premium eyepiece. But before I went to m57 I was determined to view m13, though my skies are so bad I cant see the keystone, I thought I got a glimpse of 2 of the stars, the line that contains m13, and used the telrad to get me in the area and the finder scope to try and identify the keystone but it had too much power, but I tried a few spots and eventually stumbled across the fuzzball in my 2" 40mm astrola wide field eyepiece, and bumped up the power to the 17mm LVW, and.then to my secret weapon 15mm plastic body celestron "15", which is actually about a 70 degree eyepiece with only 3 elements that lets alot of light through, it was actually pretty good but still a bit bright of background sky, since this is close to bortle 9 if not a 9, an 8+, home of snoop and fluffy. 1.5mm exit pupil usually shows m15 better than that, so I thought there was a chance i was on m92, but I wasnt going to risk losing it, so i stayed there. Yes I am using a non goto scope, but with an excellent DC powered byers drive, so keeping things in view is no problem. I am pretty sure it was m13 though, since i was using an 8 and I used to mostly use a c11 back before i got robbed in 2018 (storage break in). Also another several years since I was doing that in 2012 (i had to put everything in storage in 2013 and move onto a boat), so the light pollution is probably worse. Well the best view was around a 12.4 plossl, I tried a 10, but then it was getting pretty dim. I don't have any good wide eyepieces between my massive 14mm and 8.8mm meade UWAs and they have 8 elements and not the latest coating technology anyway, so I was really wishing I still had my 10.5 pentax XW, or even my 12mm pentax XF, or an 11 or 12mm nagler at that point, but I had to settle for a super plossl. I could have gotten out my 5 element 12.4, but that was in another case and i already had 3 open on my bed (and red safrey goggles on when i came in to do eyepiece exchanges). I am observing with no horizons, in a tight courtyard of sorts, with about 8 feet of width between apartments, and an end unit to tge north, but at least polaris.clears the roof for a high enough tripod, and to the south a gate, but with trees right there, so the south is bad as well, if not worse. So basically I have the zenith and a little bit more to work with. After I finally got bored with m13 and still couldnt see the keystone, I decided to go to m57, and mourn the loss of my filter capability on my 22mm. My best OIII is the celestron 1.25, and my best UHC is my 2" orion ultrablock. I have svbony 2" OIII and 1.25" UHC. So instead of fussing with filters I grabbed my 24mm ES68, and just enjoyed the view. By that point I was a bit weary, as the setup, first time in years, and the 22mm LVW incident had worn me down, and i knew clouds were coming (14 blocks from the beach during june), so I packed it in, and sure enough the clouds came. This was monday night, I couldn't find it in me to set up tuesday night, and last night, weds, I had fallen asleep in the afternoon and woke up at 7pm and went to get food a little.after 8 and when i finished eating there were some clouds but not completely overcast, so I decided not to set up, also.because my neighbors across the way (Uber ghetto tweakers) were arguing and had the door open, a bike out and the lights on so I didnt want to deal with that. Since i had that nap I had been up all night on youtube, and went for a smoke a little befire 5am and there was a planet, at first i thought it might be mars because it was red. I grabbed my photo tripod, set up in the doorway with my etx90 ota, opened the screen and watched jupiter into the dawn, for a good 40 minutes or more maybe an hour until I finally knocked it out of view and the sky was too bright to see it in the finder, and the moons had long ceased to be visible in the scope. I didn't fuss with my 2 main eyepiece cases, instead I have 2 smaller cases, one with mostly orthos, a few japanese plossls (17 sirius dometop,15 parks GS5, 12.4 meade SP 4el and an old televue 32mm smoothie) and the odd man out, a burgess/tmb 9mm planetary. I started with the 9mm, too much power for the conditions, i then went to the 12.4 which was getting better, then down to the 15 which was pretty good, the 17 which was getting better, but the sky was starting to get bright. I briefly tried the 32mm in an old parks japan shorty (pre GS, I assume a 2 element), and then the 32 on its own which showed a small but incredibly sharp jupiter in a bright sky, so I grabbed my meade super plossl set (which has my 12.4 5 element but I didnt wa t to fuss with comparisons, althogh i did do a short one, 12.4 4el vs edscorp 12.5 ortho, too close to call so i stuck with the plossl) to try my 20mm smoothside, which omg was really sweet, so I bumped down to the 26 which was also amazing, but I decided to.inch back up the power since the seeing seemed to have stabilized, I got as high as the 15 before I lost jupiter and could no longer see it in that tiny 25mm finder. I was also using a diagonal rather than the flip mirror, and did a few comparisons with the flip mirror and didnt see much difference. After the session I realized I had my basic "comes with scope" grade chinese mirror diagonal in rather than my japanese meade star prism. So I am excited for even better views next time, and to redo the flip mirror vs decent prism comparison. The original reason I got the SCT thread adapter was because I was using it on a GT mount, which put the eyepiece out the side. But that mount was lost, along with a few other scopes and mounts and many other things of value, in an incident where my van was stolen by a city and county, but I wont go into that, or my other bad luck in detail here, since I have been crazy long already, and who cares right? Lets just say I could have been doing the same thing with a televue 101 or even an 8" lx200R on my stellarvue m3 if 2018 didn't happen and tweakers weren't a thing.

[@LateNightAstronomy]

Thank you for such a detailed observing report! I looks like you have had some incredible views this month. I've read good things about the 24mm ES68. What are your thoughts on its performance?

[@k.h.1587]

@@LateNightAstronomy I haven't used this particular one much yet, but I did own the meade series5000 SWA version with the same optics for many years, till my 2018 theft experiences. Actually I lost that eyepiece slightly before the storage was broken into, when my axle broke and I walked the rest of the way to where I was going, and when I got back my car had been towed. In the car was my 20x80 binos and manfrotto tripod, my old nexstar 80gtl rig, and my pronto grab and go case, a doskocil (pelican alternative) seal tight XL with the pronto and most of my premium 1.25 eyepieces, including my 24mm swa. Either the salvage yard was corrupt or local tweakers hung out there, but it was broken into and they took all of it . I wish I had at least grabbed the pronto case and the manfrotto, but I was in a rush, and the fact that the 20x80 was already mounted to the tripod probably influenced me not to bother with taking anything with me. I was not in the best mindset at the time, not myself . About the performance of that optics set, it is very enjoyable, in f6-f7 refractors it is nearly perfect to the edge. Dead perfect in f10 or slower refractors, scts and maks as well, and is the ideal widefield for 6"f8, and 4.5" f8 dobs that are limited to 1.25" eyepieces. I also had a 6"f5 newtonian living at my dad's place for when I would come to visit, and I remember being very happy with the 24 as the low power in that 1.25" focuser scope as well (it was from the hardin fire sale in 2005, long before GSO reconfigured to imaging style newtonians with 2" focusers). The only time it fell short was when Actually comparing it side by side with the 24 pan, which was absolutely perfect at the edge in an f6 refractor where the SWA had a slight but noticeable bit of remaining astigmatism at the extreme edge. I know the optics have not changed, the es68 is the same so my report is valid. I haven't had my current es68 in a fast scope or in dark skies yet, but it had excellent performance in the c8, but the eye relief is not as good as the LVW that got damaged earlier that session (I didn't do a comparison since the damage prevented the use of my filter, and I was trying to enjoy a filtered view of m57, not do an eyepiece shootout). Without a 24 pan to compare it to in a fast scope, the joc 24mm 68 is a nice eyepiece, the only alternative other than used meades and maxvisions, to the panoptic style design. Panoptic is the rare bird in the hobby that can correct edge astigmatism without using a negative smyth group in the barrel. The LVW has that, which makes it even harder to try to bend out the dent because there is glass right there, so I am stuck with a non filter capable eyepiece in 1.25 limited scopes, as the option to use a 2" filter on the adapter is still there.

[@PeterK6502]

We finally had a week of consecutive clear nights. I imaged M57 and M101. I was curious if the afterglow of the 2023 supernova in M101 was still visible 1 year later, so I overlaid an image of M101 from before 2023 onto the capture from this week, and to my surprise, the afterglow of the 2023 nova was still visible (F4.5 Dobson with a 300mm mirror on a eq-platform).

[@LateNightAstronomy]

Wow. That is great to know. My guess would have been that is was no longer visible. Those are some great observations and feel free to share your images with me over on Instagram. I'd love to see them.

[@joymoody2941]

I saw a brilliant falling star tonight 7/9 around 11pm in SC It appeared green. Beautiful!

[@LateNightAstronomy]

I bet that was a wonderful sight. Perhaps an early sign of the Preseids coming up in August!

[@lieutenantdan2217]

I just saw what i thought was an asteroid, it was also green! Im in Louisiana. I saw it with the naked eye

[@neverarguewithan18wheeler10]

At 8:00 right above the ring nebula I accidentally captured a very small faint distant galaxy with my ASI camera that looks like the weather channel's old hurricane symbol I forget the name but if you can set your cameras FOV to about 0.2-0.15° do some long exposure live stacking for about 5 to 7 minutes then clean up the image with your laptop's default photo editor and darken the image and you will see it. A galaxy about 240 million light years away. I photographed it by accident while watching the ring nebula a year or two ago it was incredible I didn't even know it existed! Edit: it's called IC 1296

[@LateNightAstronomy]

It always shocks me how many "faint" galaxies pop in view when we are imaging something much brighter. I looked up IC 1296 and you are right about how it looks like the weather channel's old logo!

[@ericfaith2810]

There could be one in August as well. Not sure.

[@LateNightAstronomy]

If you are referring to this video. I put one out every month.

[@gilbertomondragon9438]

You should have gotten a Toad

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[@brhipace5894]

What app are you using?

[@LateNightAstronomy]

Sky Safari 7 for the iPhone

[@kevinthenoob1638]

I'm light polluted😭😭😭

[@LateNightAstronomy]

That's so true for most people. The Moon, planets, stars and star clusters can still be viewed in a lot of light pollution.

[@ryanwood198427]

Is there a UK channel?

[@LateNightAstronomy]

Just about everything mentioned and shown in this video will also work for observers throughout the Northern Hemisphere.

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All of July 2024? Like for real

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