The open star cluster NGC 6633
(mag 4.6) in Ophiuchus
will be well placed in the evening sky in coming weeks.
On 28 June it
will reach its highest point in the sky at around midnight
local time, and on subsequent evenings it will culminate four minutes earlier each day.
From Los Angeles , it is visible all night. It will become visible at around 21:19 (PDT), 34° above your eastern horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. It will then reach its highest point in the sky at 00:52, 62° above your southern horizon. It will be lost to dawn twilight at around 04:29, 32° above your western horizon.
At a declination of 6°30’N, it is visible across much of the world; it can be seen at latitudes between 76°N and 63°S.
At magnitude 4.6, NGC6633 is
too faint to be seen with the naked eye from any but the very darkest sites, but is visible through a pair of binoculars or small telescope.
The position of NGC6633 is as follows:
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.
The sky on 28 Jun 2024
Source
The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE430 planetary ephemeris published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
This event was automatically generated by searching the ephemeris for planetary alignments which are of interest to amateur astronomers, and the text above was generated based on an estimate of your location.
Image credit
© Digitised Sky Survey (DSS); Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II)
