{"id":2363,"date":"2019-04-08T07:29:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T07:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2019-04-08T07:30:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T07:30:59","slug":"asteroid-pallas-passes-eta-bootis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/asteroid-pallas-passes-eta-bootis\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Pallas Passes Eta Bo\u00f6tis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asteroid 2 Pallas reaches opposition this month.<\/p>\n

The brightest Pallas reaches is magnitude +7.9, so it is well below naked eye visibility.
\nIt will require binoculars or a telescope to view it as a star-like point moving through the southern part of Bo\u00f6tes, the Herdsman.<\/p>\n

Pallas has an orbital period of 4.62 years and lies almost 3 astronomical units from The Sun.<\/p>\n

On the 11th of April, at around 01:00 BST Pallas will be very close, approximately 4 arc minutes northeast, of the bright naked eye +2.7 magnitude star, Muphrid (Eta Bo\u00f6tis).
\nThis will make the asteroid much easier to find.<\/p>\n

The map below shows the path of the asteroid for the rest of April.<\/p>\n

Happy hunting.<\/p>\n

Dave<\/p>\n

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Asteroid 2 Pallas reaches opposition this month. The brightest Pallas reaches is magnitude +7.9, so it is well below naked eye visibility. It will require binoculars or a telescope to view it as a star-like point moving through the southern part of Bo\u00f6tes, the Herdsman. Pallas has an orbital period of 4.62 years and lies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Asteroid Pallas Passes Eta Bo\u00f6tis - Star-Gazing","description":"Asteroid 2 Pallas reaches opposition this month. The brightest Pallas reaches is magnitude +7.9, so it is well below naked eye visibility. It will require binoc"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2366,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions\/2366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}