Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Moon Above the Pleiades and Uranus (before dawn)

After 24 hours of travel, in the eastern sky on Tuesday morning, July 2, the now-thinner crescent of the waning moon will shine less than a binoculars' field of view to the upper right of Messier 45, the bright little Pleiades star cluster. The faint, blue-green dot of magnitude 5.8 Uranus will be positioned several finger widths to the moon's lower right (or 3 degrees to its celestial south). Uranus is visible in binoculars. The slow-moving planet will remain near the Pleiades for the next several years. Keep an eye out for bright Jupiter shining below them all and Mars to their upper right.

(Data courtesy of Starry Night)
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