Tag: South Texas Astronomical Society

Besides sprouting those May flowers, the recent rains have delighted the mosquitoes, so the $64,000 question is will they allow you outside this week? If you put on plenty of repellent, it will be worth the battle to see Venus so stunningly bright against the deep sapphire blue of the western sky just past sunset. It is easy to see how star sapphires got their name. Venus and Mars drift along the ecliptic for us to enjoy, with Venus well up in the SW as full darkness sets in. Mars will have changed position from last week’s location and the distances will continue to change over the next several weeks.

The South Texas Astronomical Society will host a comet-watching party Friday night at Resaca de la Palma State Park to view the passage of Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) as it zooms past Earth.

The rising interest in deep space thanks to the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope can only be described as, well, astronomical.

The first lunar eclipse of 2022 is set for Sunday evening and should be highly visible here in the Rio Grande Valley, clouds permitting.