Episode 386 – Observer’s Calendar for January 2024 Show Notes

Jan 3- Earth at perihelion – 147,100,632km (91.4 mill miles)

Jan 4 – Quadrantid meteors peak at 4am EST ZHR 60-200)- but moon interferes as it’s last quarter on this night – Radiant is between Bootes and Draco

Jan 7 – Double Shadows on Jupiter at 9:08 pm EST

Jupiter is high in the South all evening, in Aries, near the Pisces, Cetus Aries boarder.

Jan 8 – Venus 6-degrees N of Moon and add in Mercury to form a triangle in the morning sky

Jan 9 – Mercury 7-degrees above Moon this morning

Jan 11 – New Moon

Jan 12 – Mercury Greatest Elongation Morning Sky – (24-degrees)

Jan 14 – Saturn 2-degrees N of Moon but not here in NA

Jan 15 – Neptune 0.9-degrees N of Moon Occultation for W. Antarctica, Extreme SE S. America, South Georgia Island and S. Sandwich Isles.

Jan 18 – First Quarter Moon and Jupiter 3-degrees S of Moon

Jan 19 – Uranus 3-degrees S of Moon

Lunar Straight Wall visible this evening

Jan 20 – Moon 0.8 degrees S of Pleiades

Asteroid 354 Eleonora at Opposition & mag. 9.7

Jan 25th – Full Moon

Jan 27 – Mercury 0.2 above Mars this morning

Comets:

12P Pons-Brooks – possibly mid-8th Magnitude in Cygnus- closest approach isn’t until spring but it has been having regular outbursts for the past 6 months.

62P/Tsuchinshan mid-9th magnitude in Leo