Sky Guide January 2017

What to look out, and up, for in January.


Our highlights of this month’s skies with the planets on offer to
observers and imagers:


Venus at greatest eastern elongation

Mars a few degrees from Venus

Jupiter in Virgo

Saturn & Mercury in the morning sky

Next up is the other solar system wonders of note in January:

The Quadrantids meteor shower peaking on 3-4th January with a
ZHR of around 40

The largest asteroid, Vesta, at opposition passing through
Cancer into Gemini



Then we each take a deep sky pick from our list of favourites for
this time of year:


Jen – M33, spiral galaxy in the constellation Triangulum

Paul – NGC 2903, barred spiral galaxy in Leo

Ralph – Messier 35, open cluster in Gemini



And we finish this sky guide with January’s moon phases.