The Astronomical League’s 2019 conference (ALCON) will take place from July 25 to 29. It will be based at the Holiday Inn. Titusville, Florida; near the Kennedy Space Center, and will include commemorations of the first Moon landing fifty years ago, and a three-day cruise to the Bahamas.
Here’s the sky scene for Titusville on the evening of July 25.
Scattered along the ecliptic are Saturn, Antares, Jupiter, Spica – and Mars, just setting, and Ceres, below naked=eye visiblity but findable with binoculars.
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Guy, thanks for your diagram of the sky from mid-Florida latitudes. I just returned from an 18-day trip out to Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, so your sky map made me recall how much more impressive the summer Milky Way appears when viewed from latitudes around 30 deg north, such as at Big Bend National Park, than it does from 38N here in Virginia. Omega Centauri, the table of Scorpius, and the M7/M6 area really improve with 5 to 10 degrees of extra elevation above the horizon. Although this was from the Grand Canyon (latitude about 36N), the transparent skies gave me a spectacular view of the Milky Way back in early July:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/starvergnuegen/48254063027/
Gorgeous photo