The first Astronomical Data menu item provides access to the Astro Flyer – the SA newsletter.
The other menu items listed in the Astronomical Data menu lead to external websites that have useful and extensive astronomical information for the amateur astronomer such as:
- An excellent online planetarium “The Sky Live”. This can be set to any location and date/time combination to give a realistic view of the night sky. the site has many other items of interest to the amateur astronomer.
- The current and forecast weather for the next few days.
- Seeing conditions for tonight and the next 3 days.
- Rise/Set times for all major solar system bodies.
Time varying data relevant to the astronomer located near Nowra NSW is presented below.
Seeing Conditions
- the meteoblue link above will take you to the external website where extended 3 day information is available.
- Look for dark blue colours in the cloud cover and green values in the seeing values for good seeing conditions.
- Cloud cover ranges from dark blue (0%) to white (100%). Fog or very low clouds are not shown here.
Weather
Timing Data
The timing data for the sun, moon, planets, the ISS and Iridium satellite flares are listed in the tables below.
| Astronomical Times for Nowra (-34.888, 150.568) Starting 23 Jan 2020, for the next 10 days | |||||||
| Date | Morning | Sunrise | Sunset | Evening | Moonrise | Moonset | Moon Phase |
| Twilight | Twilight | ||||||
| 23 Jan 2020 | 04:35 | 06:05 | 20:12 | 21:42 | 04:11 | 19:01 |  |
| 24 Jan 2020 | 04:36 | 06:06 | 20:12 | 21:42 | 05:06 | 19:51 | |
| 25 Jan 2020 | 04:37 | 06:07 | 20:11 | 21:41 | 06:03 | 20:35 | |
| 26 Jan 2020 | 04:39 | 06:09 | 20:11 | 21:41 | 07:01 | 21:13 |  |
| 27 Jan 2020 | 04:40 | 06:10 | 20:10 | 21:40 | 07:59 | 21:47 | |
| 28 Jan 2020 | 04:41 | 06:11 | 20:09 | 21:39 | 08:56 | 22:17 | |
| 29 Jan 2020 | 04:42 | 06:12 | 20:09 | 21:39 | 09:52 | 22:45 |  |
| 30 Jan 2020 | 04:43 | 06:13 | 20:08 | 21:38 | 10:47 | 23:13 | |
| 31 Jan 2020 | 04:44 | 06:14 | 20:07 | 21:37 | 11:41 | 23:40 | |
| 01 Feb 2020 | 04:45 | 06:15 | 20:07 | 21:37 | 12:36 | None |  |
| Planetary Data for today | ||||||||||
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| Mercury | Venus | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Pluto | |||
| Rises | 06:50 | 09:19 | 02:30 | 04:30 | 05:27 | 13:25 | 09:41 | 05:21 | ||
| Meridian | 13:44 | 15:42 | 09:36 | 11:40 | 12:33 | 18:51 | 16:02 | 12:29 | ||
| Sets | 20:42 | 22:06 | 16:43 | 18:48 | 19:35 | 00:16 | 22:18 | 19:34 | ||
| Constellation | Capricornus | Aquarius | Ophiuchus | Sagittarius | Sagittarius | Aries | Aquarius | Sagittarius | ||
| Visible ISS Passes | ||||||||||
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| Date | Brightness | Start | Highest point | End | ||||||
| (mag) | Time | Alt. | Az. | Time | Alt. | Az. | Time | Alt. | Az. | |
| 25 Jan | -2.2 | 05:05:08 | 12° | N | 05:07:47 | 29° | NE | 05:10:47 | 10° | ESE |
| 26 Jan | -1.5 | 04:19:17 | 15° | NE | 04:19:54 | 16° | NE | 04:22:04 | 10° | E |
| 27 Jan | -3.7 | 05:06:17 | 22° | NW | 05:08:20 | 76° | SW | 05:11:45 | 10° | SE |
| 28 Jan | -3.4 | 04:20:16 | 54° | NE | 04:20:19 | 54° | NE | 04:23:39 | 10° | SE |
| 29 Jan | -1.1 | 03:34:11 | 17° | E | 03:34:11 | 17° | E | 03:35:18 | 10° | ESE |
| 29 Jan | -2.1 | 05:07:06 | 15° | W | 05:09:04 | 25° | SW | 05:12:00 | 10° | SSE |
| 30 Jan | -3.0 | 04:20:57 | 42° | SW | 04:20:57 | 42° | SW | 04:24:11 | 10° | SE |
| 31 Jan | -1.3 | 03:34:44 | 24° | SE | 03:34:44 | 24° | SE | 03:36:12 | 10° | SE |
| 31 Jan | -1.1 | 05:08:34 | 10° | SW | 05:10:02 | 12° | SSW | 05:11:31 | 10° | S |
| 01 Feb | -1.5 | 04:21:23 | 17° | SW | 04:21:43 | 17° | SSW | 04:24:06 | 10° | SSE |
| Visible Iridium Flares for the next 7 days | |||||
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| Date | Time | Magnitude | Altitude | Azimuth | Satellite |
| 24 Jan | 21:51:32 | -0.1 | 11° | 271° (W) | Iridium 45 |
| 26 Jan | 20:49:05 | -3.3 | 28° | 192° (SSW) | Iridium 45 |