Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Wed Mar 13 2019 12:00:49 Astronomy Picture of the Day Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2019 March 13 [2] Highlights of the North Spring Sky Image Credit & Copyright: Universe2go.com Explanation: What can you see [3] in the night sky this season? The featured graphic gives a few highlights for Earth [4] 's northern hemisphere. Viewed as a clock face centered at the bottom, early (northern) spring sky events fan out toward the left, while late spring events are projected toward the right. Objects relatively close to Earth [5] are illustrated, in general, as nearer to the cartoon figure with the telescope at the bottom center -- although almost everything pictured [6] can be seen without a telescope [7] . As happens during any season, constellations [8] appear the same year to year, and, as usual, the Lyrids meteor shower [9] will peak in mid-April. Also as usual, the International Space Station [10] (ISS) can be seen, at times [11] , as a bright spot drifting across the sky [12] after sunset. After the Vernal Equinox [13] next week, the length of daytime will be greater than the length of nighttime in Earth's northern hemisphere, an inequality that will escalate as the spring season [14] develops. Also as spring ages, Jupiter [15] becomes visible increasingly earlier in the night. As spring draws to a close, the month of May will feature two full moons, the second of which is called a Blue Moon [16] . Tomorrow's picture: open space ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [17] | Archive [18] | Submissions [19] | Index [20] | Search [21] | Calendar [22] | RSS [23] | Education [24] | About APOD [25] | Discuss [26] | > [27] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [28] (MTU [29] ) & Jerry Bonnell [30] (UMCP [31] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [32] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [33] A service of: ASD [34] at NASA [35] / GSFC [36] & Michigan Tech. U. [37] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1903/SpringSky19_u2g_5000.jpg [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ret6VBuCp30 [4] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/earth/in-depth/ [5] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/earth [6] https://www.astroshop.eu/blog/?p=39945 [7] https://www.lifewithdogs.tv/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ 577551_327739037281992_306958052693424_814778_1284589992_n.jpg [8] https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/88constellations.html [9] ap170427.html [10] ap161105.html [11] https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/ [12] ap140525.html [13] ap180320.html [14] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_(season) [15] ap190304.html [16] ap040731.html [17] ap190312.html [18] archivepix.html [19] lib/apsubmit2015.html [20] lib/aptree.html [21] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [22] calendar/allyears.html [23] /apod.rss [24] lib/edlinks.html [25] lib/about_apod.html [26] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=190313 [27] ap190314.html [28] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [29] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [30] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [31] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [32] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [33] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [34] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [35] https://www.nasa.gov/ [36] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [37] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .