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Parade of 4 planets of the solar system to continue this week
23.02.2016 11:02
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Parade of 4 planets of the solar system to continue this week

Parade of the four planets of the solar system (Venus, Saturn, Mars and Jupiter) will continue within this week. But in the domestic latitudes image of Venus is getting worse and only 3 planets will be able to see at the end of the week.

According to the Deputy Director of Science of ANAS Shamakhi Astrophysical Observatory named after N. Tusi, PhD in physics-math Elchin Babayev, on February 25, "Ganymede" and "Callisto", satellites of the largest planet of the solar system Jupiter, will be visible in the remote distance, angle of 15 (which is equal to the visible radius of the moon).

Mercury and Venus can be observed in the dawn from south latitudes, while Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in the morning and night times. Neptune is not seemed but Uranium can be seen only in the evening through the binoculars or a telescope. "Catalina" comet is changing in the background of Giraffe zodiac and available to see during dark times of a day.

The Moon, natural satellite of the Earth, entered the phase of the full moon at night on February 22, at 22:20. Within a week, Moon will change the location in the backgrounds of Leo, Virgo and Libra zodiacs, and be appeared in the morning and at night. On February 26 at 07:27, the moon's remote distance from Earth, in its elliptical orbit, will be 405383 kilometers (384400 miles, the average distance).

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