Professor of Astronomy at the National Institute for Astronomical and Geophysical Research, Dr. Ashraf Tadros, said that he is currently observing in the skies of Egypt and the Arab world the phenomenon of the conjunction of the moon with Jupiter (the giant of the solar system) in a wonderful scene that can be seen with the naked eye.
Tadros indicated, in a statement to the Middle East News Agency today, Thursday, that this phenomenon continues until nearly midnight, and the moon will be to Jupiter’s right, then tomorrow evening it will become to Jupiter’s left.
He explained that the term conjugation means the approach of one star to another within the limits of a number of degrees of arc when seen from the ground, which is an unreal angular approach that has nothing to do with the distances. distance between them, is very large, estimated at hundreds of millions or billions of kilometers.
In turn, the head of the Astronomical Society of Jeddah, Eng. Majed Abu Zahra, confirmed, in a statement released by him today, that the moon humpback whale is associated tonight with Jupiter, separating them by about 4 degrees, emphasizing that Jupiter is the fourth brightest body in the dome of the sky after the sun, moon and Venus.
He added that Jupiter will appear to the unaided eye observer as a bright white dot, and when viewed through binoculars or a small telescope, will see the planet’s disk and around it its four large moons known as “Galilean moons,” which are: (Janmid, Callisto, Europe and Iowa); They appear as small points of light near Jupiter.
He explained that during the night hours all of these objects apparently move westward as the Earth rotates on its axis, but the moon’s true motion is eastward relative to the stars.
He added that by observing the position of the moon at the same time every day, he notices that its motion is eastward relative to the stars and planets in the zodiacal circle, so the next day he will notice that the moon has moved away from Jupiter, running eastward. , which is its natural motion in orbit around the Earth.
