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what's up for October a night for the

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whole world to observe the moon and

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hunting for ice giants international

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observe the moon night is October 5th

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it's an annual celebration of lunar

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observation and exploration events are

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scheduled in lots of places around the

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world so there may be one near you but

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all you really need to participate is to

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go out and look up the event is time to

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coincide with the first quarter moon

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this allows for some great observing

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along the lunar Terminator the line that

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divides the day side from the night side

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with even a small pair of binoculars you

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can see some great details as features

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like mountains and craters pop up into

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the light learn more and look for events

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in your area at moon nasa.gov slash

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observe October is a great time to try

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and capture an ice giant now these

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aren't mythical creatures they're

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planets the most distant of the major

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planets of our solar system Uranus and

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Neptune the four giant planets of our

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solar system are not created equal the

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gas giants Jupiter and Saturn are much

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bigger and way more massive while the

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ice giants are so named because they

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contain a much higher amount of

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materials that typically form ices in

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the frigid depths of the outer solar

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system in October

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both Uranus and Neptune are well placed

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in the late night sky in fact you can

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see all four giant planets in the same

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evening if you look for Jupiter and

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Saturn in the west after sunset and then

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come back a couple of hours later to

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spot Uranus and Neptune think of it as

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your own personal Voyager mission NASA's

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Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have

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visited the ice giants so far although

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scientists are eager to go back for a

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more detailed study the ice giants are

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quite faint so the best way to observe

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them is with a telescope and from

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personal experience it's much easier to

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find them if you have a

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computer-controlled mount that can

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automatically point the telescope for

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you if you don't have access to one find

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a local event with the night sky network

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at night sky JPL nasa.gov otherwise sky

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watching apps can help you star hop your

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way to these two incredibly distant

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planets

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now be advised because they're so far

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away each planet appears as just a point

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of light but with a modest telescope

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you'll see Uranus as a tiny disc you'd

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be forgiven for mistaking Neptune as a

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star it's the same size as Uranus but

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much farther away so it's fainter the

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ice giants are elusive but well worth

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the effort to say you've seen them with

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your own eyes here are the phases of the

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Moon for October you can catch up on all

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of NASA's current and future missions at

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nasa.gov I'm Preston dykes from NASA's