Sky’s the limit: Watch the Moon hang out with Jupiter and Mars

Steven took this photo early last evening from Tompkins Square Park. Jupiter is to the right of the moon. 

OK, because someone will ask...

Tonight will bring "one of the final celestial alignments of 2024 as the moon shines directly between Jupiter and Mars in the eastern sky — an event that is easy to see for stargazers of all ages," per AccuWeather. (As long as it's not cloudy — and it is not.) 

Back to AccuWeather: 

Jupiter and the moon will become visible shortly after nightfall, but the entire show won't be observable until after 10 p.m. local time, once Mars rises above the horizon. After that, the trio will be visible for the rest of the night, provided the sky remains cloud-free.

Friday's parting shot

The last of the 2024 supermoons as seen through the trees from Second Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue. 

Read more about November's Full Beaver Moon (no snickering!) here.

Friday's opening shot

Last night's moon as seen from the East Village... thanks to Cecil Scheib for the photo!

Monday's parting shot

Felton Davis of the Second Avenue Star Watchers shared this photo from early this morning, taken from Avenue A and Fourth Street, showing a "fantastic conjunction of the Crescent Moon and Mars about 4 degrees apart in the pre-dawn glow of Key Foods."

Felton did say he touched up a faint-looking Mars a bit and tweaked the contrast to show some detail on the surface of the Moon, though Key Foods remained untouched!

Tuesday's parting shot

The early evening view from 1st and 1st...

Tuesday's parting shot

The moon over the Christodora House on Avenue B early this evening...

A pre-dawn collab with the Moon and the Seven Sisters

Felton Davis of the Second Avenue Star Watchers shared this dispatch early this morning...

Waning crescent Moon and very close by, the Pleiades in the constellation Taurus, high over East Third Street at 4 a.m. on Wednesday. 

All Seven Sisters could clearly be seen, especially if you blocked the glare from the Moon, but only three of them showed up in the photos.

Midnight moon over 2nd Avenue

Felton Davis of the Second Avenue Star Watchers shared this dispatch from last night...

"After two months of haze and smoke, finally, an almost-full moon hovers over Second Avenue at midnight."

Expect a full moon tonight... and then there's a rare blue supermoon coming at the end of the month.

Monday's parting shot

Manhattanhenge counter programming...

Sunday's parting shot

From Avenue A, the Key side of the moon...

Wednesday's parting shot

View from Third Avenue and St. Mark's Place...

Did you catch the Beaver Blood Moon lunar eclipse early this morning?

EVG reader Jeanne Krier shared this photo from an EV rooftop early this morning. 

What was happening? 

Per Space.com: 

The last total lunar eclipse until 2025 will turn the moon blood-red on Tuesday, Nov. 8, but exactly when you should look up depends on where you are. The eclipse, dubbed the Beaver Blood Moon lunar eclipse since it occurs during November's Full Beaver Moon, will be visible across North America, the Pacific, Australia and Asia.

During the eclipse, the full moon will pass through Earth's shadow as it moves behind our planet with respect to the sun, giving it a spectacular bloody color in the process. 

Our friend Roger Clark at NY1 got a nice clip...

Pretty cool #BloodMoon over #StatenIsland pic.twitter.com/nP9xUXc3d1

— Roger Clark (@RogerClark41) November 8, 2022

Sunday's parting shot

A view of the moon from an East Village street...

Thursday's parting shot

A black-and-white view this evening from Seventh Street and First Avenue...

Thursday's parting shot

Moon pic from Seventh Street at (almost) Avenue A...

Flashback Friday: this morning's sunrise, last Saturday's harvest moonrise

Thanks to EVG reader Jeanne Krier for these photos...

The pre-dawn Moon in Taurus

An early morning dispatch from Felton Davis of the Second Avenue Star Watchers ... the top photo of the waning Moon was taken from Third Street ... with another shot with some of the Moon's features...

Per Felton: "The waning moon is weird in the early morning, all flipped over from its usual early evening waxing position. Out in the country, the famous Pleiades cluster would be visible just a few degrees over from the moon, but at street level here in NYC they are not."

The longest partial moon eclipse in 580 years as seen from 2nd Avenue

As Space.com reported:

The full Beaver Moon of November 2021 passed through Earth's shadow in a partial lunar eclipse overnight on Nov. 18-19 in what was the longest eclipse of its kind in 580 years.

And this was obviously a big event for Felton Davis of the Second Avenue Star Watchers. 

He reports that the event here was almost rained out (ed note: stupid rain):

After a long, cold and drizzly night, the clouds over 2nd Avenue finally parted, revealing a slow eclipse of the Moon that was already in progress. Three or four times from 3:15 to 4:30 a.m., the Moon disappeared behind the clouds, and came back out, and each time I had to reset the (icy cold!) telescope ... and take a few photos.

And props to Amy for coming out and helping Felton get the telescope back inside.

Moon struck

Well, we didn't get to enjoy the full-on effects of the Super Flower Blood Moon like in other parts of the world ... but the moon was pretty super last night. EVG reader Jeanne Krier shared this photo from last evening...

Monday's parting shot

A shot of the moon in its Waxing Crescent Phase (look to the lower right!) via @tweakz229 ...