Don’t Miss, Today’s Late Rainy Moon Phenomenon and the West Elongation of Mercury

KOMPAS.com – There are two phenomena that decorate the Indonesian sky from this morning, afternoon, until tomorrow morning.

Two celestial phenomenon it’s a phase month final bandage at descending knot and maximum west elongation mercury.

Researcher at the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space Science Center ( Eight), Andi Pangerang, in his written statement on the Lapan science education page, explained that these two phenomena have their own appeal to be observed by people from home.

Anything? Check out the explanation.

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1. The final bandage moon phase at the descending knot

The final bandage phase is one of those phases Month when the configuration between the Sun, Earth and Moon forms a right angle of 90 degrees, and occurs after the full moon phase.

In this condition, the Moon is 372,081 kilometers from Earth (geocentric) and is in the vicinity of the constellation Ophiuchus.

Andi said, although the peak of the final bandaging phase occurred at 08.30 WIB, 09.30 WITA, 10.30 WIT this morning, you could not observe it this morning.

“The late moon can only be seen when it rises around midnight from the east-southeast direction, culminates in the south before the sun rises and then sets in the west-southwest direction around noon,” he explained.

Uniquely, the moon phase coincides with the descending node that happened earlier at 07.55 WIB.

The descending node is the intersection between the Moon’s orbit and the ecliptic, where Bula moves south of the ecliptic.

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