{"id":27723,"date":"2021-12-23T08:01:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T08:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyatnightmagazine.com\/?p=102902"},"modified":"2021-12-23T08:19:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T08:19:08","slug":"star-diary-podcast-whats-in-the-night-sky-january-2022","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/rss_feed\/star-diary-podcast-whats-in-the-night-sky-january-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Diary Podcast: What\u2019s in the night sky, January 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Ezzy Pearson\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Thursday, 23 December 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>There\u2019s loads to see in the night sky in January 2022. On 3rd January, see if you can catch the peak of the <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.skyatnightmagazine.com\/advice\/skills\/quadrantid-meteor-shower-when-how-to-see\/&quot;\">Quadrantid meteor shower<\/a>, then on 18th see if you can pick out the <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.skyatnightmagazine.com\/astrophotography\/planets\/uranus\/&quot;\">green planet, Uranus<\/a>, next to the yellow star Aretis, and the 25th you can see <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.skyatnightmagazine.com\/astrophotography\/planets\/jupiter\/&quot;\">Jupiter<\/a> next to the double star Sigma Aquarius. For details, or to find out even more about what\u2019s up in the night sky, check out the latest episode now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;embed&quot;\"> <div class=\"&quot;embed__intrinsic&quot;\"> <iframe src=\"&quot;\/\/embed.acast.com\/radio-astronomy\/stardiary-what-sinthenightsky-january2022&quot;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"&quot;0&quot;\"\/> <\/div>\n<\/div> <h1>Transcript<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Ezzy <\/strong>Greetings, listeners, and welcome to Radio Astronomy\u2019s Star Diary, our guide to the best things to see in the northern hemisphere night\u2019s sky in January 2022. I\u2019m the magazine\u2019s news editor Ezzy Pearson and I\u2019m joined on the podcast today by reviews editor Paul Money is going to be telling us the best things to catch in this month\u2019s night sky. Welcome to the show, Paul.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul <\/strong>Hi Ezzy, Another year and a lot of objects and things to see in the sky.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ezzy <\/strong>Yes, so January is the start of the new year. Do we have some great new things to see in the night sky this month?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul <\/strong>Ah, we\u2019ve got a good selection of old and new, as always. But you know, we start off almost with a bang. Not quite a Big Bang. But you know, we\u2019ve been following the <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.skyatnightmagazine.com\/advice\/skills\/observing-guide-how-see-planets-january\/&quot;\">planets<\/a> in the evening sky for several months now, including that one that didn\u2019t seem to go away, <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.skyatnightmagazine.com\/astrophotography\/planets\/venus\/&quot;\">Venus<\/a>, that seemed to just keep going. But the thing about Venus is that we are now losing it, and this is the moment. This is it. It\u2019s gone as seen from the evening sky. So we start off the first week you have Venus lingering in the southwest break very rapidly, drops out of sight and goes into solar conjunction. But before it does, so you\u2019ve got she got a line up really of Venus, <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.skyatnightmagazine.com\/astrophotography\/planets\/mercury-transit\/&quot;\">Mercury<\/a>, <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.skyatnightmagazine.com\/astrophotography\/planets\/saturn\/&quot;\">Saturn<\/a> and <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.skyatnightmagazine.com\/astrophotography\/planets\/jupiter\/&quot;\">Jupiter<\/a> as you move away out of the bright glare of the twilight. So we\u2019ve got a plethora of at least four planets there to play with, and the beauty about it is that Mercury\u2019s been moving up since the end of December. Mercury\u2019s crept up, and he\u2019s now in a good position and so on. The 1st through took about the 6th sort of thing, we\u2019ve actually got Venus there lingering so we can see that, but we will lose it after this. But he\u2019s been replaced as the evening star by three others. I mean, it\u2019s funny. We always call Venus the Evening Stars sort of thing, you know in the Morning Star will let you know. At the moment, we\u2019ll also have Mercury, Saturn and Jupiter. So, you know, it\u2019s quite a gathering of planets, really. And of course, that does mean that while Mercury\u2019s in the sky, if you\u2019re a hardy soul, I am not quite as hardy as I used to be. When you stay up all night, you can get all the planets so you could do a planet marathon, just as we were saying at the end of December, sort of thing, it\u2019s still lingering. As long as you can still see Venus, you\u2019ll be able to get all the planets in the sky. Yes, stay up all night sort of thing, but I\u2019d suggest going having a quick nap in between some of them. But yeah, we got Venus, Mercury, Saturn and Jupiter. Now, as it happened, you\u2019re looking roughly about half an hour after sunset. So, you know, the twilight will be bright. This is why Venus is a bit of a pain. It\u2019s, a bright, which is good because that keeps it visible. So but it drops away very rapidly, but mercury moves up for a short while. So for the two weeks, the first two weeks in January, we\u2019ve got Mercury creeping up and then dropping back itself. So as it does those sort of things, Saturn and Jupiter is also sliding into the twilight. So it\u2019s all all sort of happening. In fact, towards the end of the month, we lose Saturn as well. So we\u2019ll lose Venus, Mercury and Saturn in the process of this month. And at the end of the month, we\u2019ll left \u2026 aww, poor Jupiter on its own in the bright evening twilight sky. And that\u2019s in the southwest, so you\u2019re going to need a good, clear horizon. I have to say otherwise anything in the way trees, buildings, anything like that will actually cause a problem. But in the meantime, on the fourth, we have I mean, we always are you every month and the clues and month, we got the Moon coming up and on the 4th, it\u2019s actually forming a triangle with Mercury and Saturn. I don\u2019t mention it earlier because it\u2019s actually new on the 2nd. And so the day old Moon actually lies to the lower\u2026 It forms a triangle with Venus of Mercury. The trouble is, the Moon\u2019s below them sweet sets rapidly. And in fact, by the time twilight sort of darkens enough for you to see, I\u2019ll actually be very well. I think it will be very difficult, almost impossible to view when he\u2019s between Venus and Mercury. But the next night, it forms almost a triangle, a right angle triangle with Mercury and Saturn. It\u2019ll be very, very thin. I like crescent moons. Look out for the Earth shine on it because you know, that\u2019s the second on light bouncing off the Earth\u2019s atmosphere back onto the night side of the Moon, so almost like a fill in flash for photographers. They\u2019d be very familiar with that sort of idea as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ezzy <\/strong>I do like it when it\u2019s about sort of like, is it still there? Just it\u2019s just a sort of very, very thin sliver of light across the night sky, I think always looks really pretty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul <\/strong>And in deep Twilight. The twilight adds to the effect as well. I think the golden colours of Twilight really help bring it out so fast on the 4th, and when Mercury and Saturn on the 5th, it moves between. Saturn and Jupiter, then on the 6th, the Moon will be thicker crescent and it\u2019ll be to the left of Jupiter as well. So we\u2019ve got this moon moving past these planets, which it does so and has done for several months now. Well, now is the last time it\u2019s going to do it in the evening sky, past these planets as I say, we\u2019re going to lose the rest, in actual fact. But in the meantime, we\u2019ve got we\u2019ve got a meteor shower. Unfortunately, the first few months of the year, any year is always pretty badly served by meteor showers, and we usually have to wait until the April Lyrids before we get one. But we do have one in January. And that\u2019s the Quadrantids, the Quadrantids actually from an old constellation, the mural quadrant. And so it\u2019s a defunct constellation, but it actually has the radiant not too far from Arcturus so it can Boots, Bo\u00f6tes, however you want to pronounce it sort of thing. So, you know, it\u2019s one of those that it\u2019s very favourable in the sense that a new moon is on the 2nd. So if this is peaking on the 3rd, these are ideal circumstances and that meteor shower itself is the radiant circumpolar, so it doesn\u2019t set. So, you know, we\u2019ve got a chance to see it all the way through the actual night if you want. Now, the meteo rates, we always talk about the zenith hourly rate. So and it is a bit of a problem because it\u2019s the perfect conditions looking absolutely directly up through a crystal clear or obscured sky, no haze or anything like that. And it doesn\u2019t work like that! Because you start to diminish as you look further down the sky, then you start towards the horizon, there\u2019s the thickening of the atmosphere, and it dims the media so that we say a hundred plus per hour, really, we\u2019re probably a quarter of that visually. He\u2019s looking at because this one is idea. Its under perfect conditions with no Moon because nine times out of 10 most of the meteor showers throughout the year, a few of them are going to be affected and ruined by the moonlight. So this is January 3rd do have a look out during the course of that night into the fall and see if you can see any of the Quadrantids. And if you can track them back towards Bo\u00f6tes then you probably got one of the Quadrantids itself. Now, back to the planets in the evening sky, Mercury reaches its greatest elongation from the Sun. So this is the eastern elongation, which is why we see low in the southwest in the sky. So I always think of it for the general person to the left of the Sun. That means it\u2019s in the evening sky. If it\u2019s to the right of the Sun, It\u2019ll be in the morning sky like won\u2019t happen until next month. But Mercury is that great elongation from the Sun, and it seems to be gradually heading towards Saturn. You think, hooray, we\u2019re going to have a really close conjunction, but he doesn\u2019t because he sort of slows down and stops and then starts going back, even though Saturn is dropping into the evening twilight. So it\u2019s actually Mercury\u2019s closest to Saturn on the 12th, five days later, five evenings later, you should say, and still down in the bright twilight. So, you know, after that, Mercury will become harder to see. It\u2019s beginning to actually drop right down into the twilight, and so it will be joined by Saturn as well and as I say, then we\u2019ll only be left with actually Jupiter. So it\u2019s a good chance to catch them. But as say, Mercury won\u2019t get as close to Saturn as it has done in the past sometimes, but really nice conjunction. Whether they fit in the field of view of a telescope, we should see them in binoculars, wide field binoculars, 7\u00d750. You should get them both and a pair of binoculars. Okay, so the Moon does carry on. I mean, the Moon doesn\u2019t stop, does it? You know? Yeah, but you know, the next time and this is harder because the planet is fainter, but it\u2019s actually on the 7th close to, and it\u2019s a thick crescent now, close to Neptune. It forms a bit of a triangle with Neptune. And, I think it\u2019s psi\u2026 Like Aquariuii so there is a whole series of them. A trio of stars is sort in that region, but Neptune is actually quite faint. Its magnitude 7.8, something like that. So it\u2019s actually quite faint. But again, you should better to pick it up in large binoculars. And I always think it\u2019s nice because that gives you an idea on the 7th where Neptune. The Moon guides you. You always like it when the Moon guide you to targets that you probably wouldn\u2019t otherwise look for, especially when they\u2019re not naked eye. And then on the 11th keep up and give you an idea of where the planets are sort of thing on the 11th, it\u2019s actually forming a bit of a triangle is Mu Ceti and Uranus. So we\u2019ve got Uranus and technically Uranus is naked eye. I say technically a very yes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ezzy <\/strong>If you\u2019ve got a clear sky and good eyesight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul <\/strong>And in a way, no Moon next to it. So ironically though the moon is actually now two days past first quarter, which took place on the 9th, it\u2019s actually near Uranus, I say. And ironically, both of them lie actually in southern Aries, but it\u2019s better to use Mu Ceti because it\u2019s actually the one directly below them that forms a nice triangle. So the moon light will sort of wash out Uranus, but Uranus is a lot easier to see actually in binoculars, so you should better spot that quite well. And he\u2019s got a star called 29 Aretus just above it. We\u2019ll come to that in a short while. So we\u2019re now talking about the Moon going through\u2026 I like it when\u2026 I mean, a lot of the time it seems to be in empty space in which, yes, it is an empty space Paul. What are you talking about, you mad, it\u2019s in space? After all, it\u2019s going around the Earth. But as it passes through the constellations, It\u2019s often in very sparsely populated areas of the sky. But 12th to 13th we have the Moon passing through Taurus, and I love Taurus because I mean, to me, it\u2019s like, you know, two major star clusters make up the main constellation. We\u2019ve got the Pleiades and the Hyades. On the 12th the Moon is to the lower right of the Pleiades. You want to be looking about, you know, you can leave it till a couple of hours after sunset, so the sky\u2019s got darker. So around about six o\u2019clock sort of thing. So the sky is obviously, the sun\u2019s Setting around around about 4ish around about this time. So about six o\u2019clock, you\u2019ve got a dark sky, you\u2019ve got the moon up, and to the lower right of the Pleiades. And then the next night, it\u2019s actually directly above the Hyades. In fact, it\u2019s due north of Aldebran, which is the orange eye of the Bull, the red eye Bull they often say. It looks more orange to me, if anything. And of course, Aldebaran is part of the Hyades cluster, or it looks like it is. But the reality is it\u2019s actually half the distance. So it\u2019s not part of the cluster whatsoever. It\u2019s a line of sight, just as the Moon is forming a line of sight itself with the cluster and Aldebaran. It\u2019s always like it when it\u2019s in an area like this, because the Constellation is quite easy to recognise a Taurus, I think and say, you\u2019ve got these two wonderful clusters there as well to actually view at the same time. As the Moon carries on and on the 17th it\u2019s full. Now, normally I would mother really watch with a full moon. I mean, you can see that they sort like the ray patterns from the major craters, Tycho, Copernicus, et cetera. So I think they are interesting to look at if a telescope. But in this particular case, it forms almost an exact line with Castor and Pollux in Gemini. So I always love it because I know people will say, What were those two stars above the moon on such and such a night, and you can say \u201cAh that was January the 17th and that was Castor and Pollux in Gemini\u201d. Now the other thing to look out for, and it happens either of the side of full Moon is, lookout, if there\u2019s slight mist\u2026 I mean normally, you wouldn\u2019t really want to observe when it\u2019s misty skies, but look out because you might get a lunar halo. And I always think the full moon was more moonlight, and that makes the halo brighter. So you can have it a few days before a few days afterwards. But as I say, it\u2019s when it\u2019s full, you\u2019ve got the most moonlight to create the actual lunar halo itself. So then that can be quite pretty. And a lot of people get some nice atmospheric photographs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ezzy <\/strong>There\u2019s definitely been been some times, but I\u2019ve been walking home from work or whatever, and you look up because I live in the middle of the city. So there\u2019s not a lot of stargazing you can do when you walk home, but occasionally you sort of look up and you see this absolutely beautiful lunar halo, and that\u2019s always great to do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul <\/strong>And that\u2019s the beauty. At least it gives us something. If you\u2019re in a city or a major town, you got a lot of light pollution. It gives you something to look forward to and sort of see in the sky. As you say, it is a pain when you\u2019re talking about deep sky objects, but the bright planets and things like this really help to make up for it. Now, the next night, in actual fact we got we mentioned Uranus before. This is Uranus is actually directly below. It\u2019s also stationary. Now the outer planets from the point of view of the Earth do something weird, they do this weird wobble sort of thing. So so they seem to slow down, stop and then go into reverse. Now we know they\u2019re not physically doing that in their orbits. It\u2019s the fact that we\u2019re on the Earth. We\u2019re on a moving platform. And so it\u2019s our motion that sort of makes it look odd that it slows its motion against the background star. It goes backward for a short while, for a few weeks to a couple of months, and then it rejoins the normal motion again. So it\u2019s had a stationary point here and it\u2019s directly below 29 Aretus. Now it\u2019s interesting because. It\u2019s almost the same brightness as Uranus. Uranus is around magnitude 5.7 5.8. 29 Aretus is magnitude six. So it\u2019ll be interesting to see, the can you notice a difference? While Uranus is close, either side by several days. But actually the the 18th is when it directly below it, it\u2019s actually stationary as well. So if you can see it, then look for that difference. If you can see the slight difference in the brightness, it is only a few tenths of the magnitude. I mean, it\u2019s a good test, the eyesight to see whether you can notice that. The other thing to notice is the colour, can you see colour? Uranus is classically known as a greenish coloured planet, and I have to say in large binoculars and small telescopes, I definitely see the green. Wide field binoculars, I\u2019m not quite so sure. So have a look because 29 Aretus to see yellow is an F8 spectral type star, so it\u2019s yellowish star as well. So that\u2019s quite a contrast yellow and green, and that\u2019s right in our main part of the spectral sensitivity of our eyes. So, you know, it would be interesting to see whether anybody actually picks that up, see if they notice, the colour and the difference in the brightness. Now it\u2019s all happening roughly in the middle, into the third week of January. And so what we\u2019ve got here is on the 19th, we\u2019re back to the evening sky into the evening twilight. This might be your last chance really to capture Saturn. Mercury\u2019s dropping a way off, as we mentioned earlier. But on the 19th, Saturn lies very close in just below theta Capricorni. So if the question is in the twilight, are you going to able to see the star? You know, hopefully you\u2019ll see the planet itself. But yes, this might be your last chance to get Saturn, but the fact that you\u2019ve got the bonus of a star right next to it as well, will add to the appeal. So I\u2019ll be trying for that. Then on the 25th \u2013 Jupiter. Now we sort of left Jupiter out,\u00a0 we mentioned a few times, but Jupiter is the one that\u2019s going to linger a little bit longer. We\u2019ve got it for another probable month. So at the moment on the 25th of January, it actually lies above Sigma Aquarii. Now there\u2019s a huge difference between them because Jupiter\u2019s magnitude -2.1, whereas sigma is magnitude 4.8. It\u2019s a very close double star, so it might be worth putting a telescope on. I think it\u2019s around about three and a half seconds, so it is quite a tight double sort of thing, you know, and there are unequal components as well. But because he\u2019s magnitude 4.8 this star, it\u2019s on a par with some of the moons of Jupiter. The only difference is it\u2019ll actually be below Jupiter, to the south of Jupiter itself, but it\u2019ll be interesting to have a look at that sort of thing. And if you can see Callisto is certainly clear and visible in the actual view , and I know two of the other moons are on the same direction between Callisto and Jupiter as well. Now the next night we\u2019re back to the Moon. And the look with 10, 15\u00d770\u00a0 the binoculars if you\u2019ve got them or small telescope. And because the Moon will be creeping closer too, and this is the morning sky, we\u2019re told about five o\u2019clock in the morning. Start watching from then because this is an occultation of a quite bright star. What\u2019s more, it\u2019s a double, its alpha Libra. Now the thing about that is Zubinelgenubi. That\u2019s a real mouthful, isn\u2019t it? But it is a wonderful double star, easily split in binoculars. It\u2019s just about if I remember, right? You could potentially have got exceptionally eyesight you could potentially split it, but I\u2019d use a small telescope to watch, and it\u2019s the fainter component that actually gets occulted first. So you get double \u2013 you got two for the price of one, buy, get one free sort of thing on occultation. So watch as the moon creeps closer and then occult the secondary first and then the primary after that. And then around about, we\u2019re talking about\u00a0 just as twilight starts, they will actually reappear on the dark side of the moon itself. So there we are. That\u2019s an occultation as well, and to actually finish off, we\u2019re back into the morning sky, but guess who\u2019s bounded back? Venus! I mean, well, we just got rid of it at the beginning of the month, but it\u2019s one of those situations where Venus really just moved quickly into natural morning sky. So from about middle of the month, start looking at because we\u2019ve got Mars as well that both in Sagittarius and so Venus will gradually creep closer to Mars. But, I like line ups. We\u2019ve got a slim crescent moon on the 29th, so I\u2019ve set it for about seven am in the morning, so twilight started. But you love the crescent moon, Mars and then Venus in the sky as well to actually end our selection of objects in the monthly sky. So quite a lot there to actually see lots of planets, but I thought we got rid of Venus. But no it\u2019s back with a vengeance if you like getting up in the morning sky. So there we have it Ezzy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ezzy <\/strong>It certainly sounds like we\u2019ve got quite a lot of things going on in the night sky this month and in fact, in the morning skies as well. So in the 3rd of January, we\u2019ll have the peak of the Quadrantid meteor shower followed the next night by a quartette of planets passing by the slim crescent moon, including it making a right angle triangle with Sun and Mercury. Then on the 17th, we\u2019ve got the full moon forming a straight line with the stars Castor and Pollux, which is the head of the Gemini constellation. In case you don\u2019t know which ones those are, Then on the 18th, we\u2019ll have the Green Planet Uranus next to the yellow star our yetis, which is a great way to see if you can try and pick out those colour differentials. Then, on the 25th, Jupiter will be right next to the double star Sigma Aquarius by making it a great target for binoculars or telescopes to see if you can pick apart all of those various different parts of it and perhaps even get a couple of moons of Jupiter in there as well. And then finally, we\u2019ll be ending the month out with the return of Venus, this time not in the evening skies, it will be in the morning skies. So if you fancy getting up early, there\u2019s a nice new challenge for you to get to the mornings. So thank you very much for taking your time to explain all of that to us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul <\/strong>My pleasure. And let\u2019s hope we get some clear skies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ezzy <\/strong>Absolutely. If you want to find out even more about the spectacular sights that will be gracing the night sky this month. Be sure to pick up a copy of BBC Sky at Night magazine, but we have a 16 page pull out sky guide with a full overview of everything worth looking up for in January 2022. Whether you like to look at the Moon, the planets or the deep sky, whether you use binoculars, telescopes or neither, our Sky guide has got you covered with detail star charts to help you track your way across the night sky from all of us here at BBC Sky at Night Magazine. Goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ezzy Pearson Published: Thursday, 23 December 2021 at 12:00 am There\u2019s loads to see in the night sky in January 2022. 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