Venera i Mesec biće u konjunkciji 18. maja, vidljivo u predsvitanje sa zapadnog horizonta. Mesec će biti u rastućem srpu sa oko 5% osvetljenja, a Venera će sjajiti ispod njega. Proverite lokalnu prognozu oblaka — National Weather Service je objavio mapu pokrivenosti — i dođite 30–60 minuta pre izlaska Sunca za najbolji pogled.
Mesec i Venera u neobičnoj konjunkciji 18. maja — kako i gde da ih posmatrate
NASA released thousands of new photos taken during the Artemis II mission around the moon. The astronauts selected for the mission thoroughly documented the 10-day voyage, which included an April 6 lunar flyby as they traveled more than a quarter-million miles from Earth.
U aprilu su astronauti misije Artemis II pri NASA-i prišli blizu Meseca i zabeležili zapanjujuće fotografije našeg najbližeg nebeskog suseda. Sada, na jednu noć u maju, Mesec će dobiti pratilju: Venera će mu se pridružiti u vidljivoj konjunkciji.
Šta je konjunkcija?
Konjunkcija je prividno poravnanje najmanje dva nebeska tela na nebu, pri čemu sa Zemlje deluju veoma blizu, iako su u stvarnosti udaljena milionima kilometara. Do ovakvih susreta dolazi kada se orbitalne putanje planeta i Meseca, gledano iz naše linije posmatranja, poklope, objašnjava Planetary Society.
Kada i gde gledati
Mesec i Venera biće u konjunkciji u noći na 18. maj. Događaj će biti najlakše vidljiv u predsvitanje ili neposredno pred izlazak Sunca, zavisno od vaše lokacije. U Severnoj hemisferi (uključujući SAD i veći deo Evrope) potražite zapadni horizont 30–60 minuta pre lokalnog izlaska Sunca — Venera će sjajiti ispod tankog srpa Meseca.
Faza Meseca i vidljivost
Do 18. maja Mesec će biti u rastućem srpu i oko 5% osvetljen, pa će izgledati kao tanka srebrna linija. Venera je jedan od najsjajnijih objekata na nebu posle Sunca i Meseca, pa će susret biti lako uočljiv iz većine mesta sa čistim nebom.
Prognoza oblaka i oprema
Oblaci su glavni faktor koji može zakloniti prizor. National Weather Service je objavio grafiku pokrivenosti oblacima za noć 18. maja — plavo označava vedra neba, a tamnije nijanse i veći procenti pokazuju veću verovatnoću naoblake. Proverite lokalnu prognozu uoči događaja.
Teleskopi i dvogledi mogu otkriti više detalja, ali za uočavanje konjunkcije oprema nije neophodna — oba objekta su dovoljno sjajna da se vide golim okom. Ako želite tamniji horizont za bolji doživljaj, organizacija DarkSky International vodi spisak zaštićenih "tamnih" lokacija, uključujući 174 mesta u SAD.
Brzi saveti za posmatranje
- Proverite lokalno vreme izlaska Sunca i dođite 30–60 minuta ranije.
- Potražite otvoren zapadni horizont bez visokih zgrada ili drveća.
- Koristite aplikaciju za nebo ili jednostavnu mapu neba da locirate Mesec i Veneru.
- Ako su oblaci, pokušajte sledeće jutro — Venera će biti vidljiva i u narednim danima, ali udaljenost od Meseca će se menjati.
Ovaj jednostavan, ali upečatljiv susret na nebu pruža odličnu priliku i ljubiteljima astronomije i slučajnim posmatračima da uživaju u dvostrukom sjaju iznad nas, čak i bez profesionalne opreme.
NASA released thousands of new photos taken during the Artemis II mission around the moon. The astronauts selected for the mission thoroughly documented the 10-day voyage, which included an April 6 lunar flyby as they traveled more than a quarter-million miles from Earth.
NASA released thousands of new photos taken during the Artemis II mission around the moon. The astronauts selected for the mission thoroughly documented the 10-day voyage, which included an April 6 lunar flyby as they traveled more than a quarter-million miles from Earth.
NASA released thousands of new photos taken during the Artemis II mission around the moon. The astronauts selected for the mission thoroughly documented the 10-day voyage, which included an April 6 lunar flyby as they traveled more than a quarter-million miles from Earth.
NASA released thousands of new photos taken during the Artemis II mission around the moon. The astronauts selected for the mission thoroughly documented the 10-day voyage, which included an April 6 lunar flyby as they traveled more than a quarter-million miles from Earth.
NASA released thousands of new photos taken during the Artemis II mission around the moon. The astronauts selected for the mission thoroughly documented the 10-day voyage, which included an April 6 lunar flyby as they traveled more than a quarter-million miles from Earth.
NASA released thousands of new photos taken during the Artemis II mission around the moon. The astronauts selected for the mission thoroughly documented the 10-day voyage, which included an April 6 lunar flyby as they traveled more than a quarter-million miles from Earth.
NASA released thousands of new photos taken during the Artemis II mission around the moon. The astronauts selected for the mission thoroughly documented the 10-day voyage, which included an April 6 lunar flyby as they traveled more than a quarter-million miles from Earth.
NASA released thousands of new photos taken during the Artemis II mission around the moon. The astronauts selected for the mission thoroughly documented the 10-day voyage, which included an April 6 lunar flyby as they traveled more than a quarter-million miles from Earth.
NASA released thousands of new photos taken during the Artemis II mission around the moon. The astronauts selected for the mission thoroughly documented the 10-day voyage, which included an April 6 lunar flyby as they traveled more than a quarter-million miles from Earth.
NASA released thousands of new photos taken during the Artemis II mission around the moon. The astronauts selected for the mission thoroughly documented the 10-day voyage, which included an April 6 lunar flyby as they traveled more than a quarter-million miles from Earth.
NASA released thousands of new photos taken during the Artemis II mission around the moon. The astronauts selected for the mission thoroughly documented the 10-day voyage, which included an April 6 lunar flyby as they traveled more than a quarter-million miles from Earth.
NASA released thousands of new photos taken during the Artemis II mission around the moon. The astronauts selected for the mission thoroughly documented the 10-day voyage, which included an April 6 lunar flyby as they traveled more than a quarter-million miles from Earth.
NASA released thousands of new photos taken during the Artemis II mission around the moon. The astronauts selected for the mission thoroughly documented the 10-day voyage, which included an April 6 lunar flyby as they traveled more than a quarter-million miles from Earth.
NASA released thousands of new photos taken during the Artemis II mission around the moon. The astronauts selected for the mission thoroughly documented the 10-day voyage, which included an April 6 lunar flyby as they traveled more than a quarter-million miles from Earth.
The crescent Moon joins the planets Mercury, Venus, Uranus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in alignment in 2022 over Melbourne Beach in Florida.
The crew of Artemis II captured a breathtaking image of a celestial event known as an "Earthset," in which the Earth dropped below the lunar horizon. The image is reminiscent of the iconic "Earthrise" photo that NASA astronaut Bill Anders captured in 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission that showed our planet rising on the lunar horizon.
Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman of NASA took this stunning photograph of Earth from the Orion spacecraft's window on April 2. The image is reminiscent of the iconic "blue marble" image captured during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
In this new image from the Artemis II crew, NASA explains that what is depicted is the "divide between night and day, known as the terminator, cutting across Earth."
William Anders, a NASA astronaut on the historic Apollo 8 mission around the moon, took the iconic “Earthrise” photo while in lunar orbit on Dec. 24, 1968.
The first photograph of the Earth taken by an astronaut standing on the lunar surface, taken during the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969.
One of the most well-known photographs of Earth, the "blue marble" image was taken by the crew of the final Apollo mission (Apollo 17) as the crew made its way to the moon in 1972.
Voyager 1's 1990 photo of Earth, widely referred to as the "pale blue dot," was taken at a distance of 3.7 billion miles from the sun, making it the first photo taken beyond all the planets in our solar system. This image was created in 2020 or the 30th anniversary of the iconic picture using modern image-processing software and techniques to revisit the well-known Voyager view.
Because the International Space Station orbits so close to Earth's atmosphere (about 250 miles high,) the outpost and the astronauts who have lived aboard it have been the source of plenty of spectacular photos of our planet for 25 years. This recent photo, taken April 6, 2026, shows auroras glowing over the Indian Ocean.
NASA astronaut Chris Williams is pictured outside the International Space Station during a March 18, 2026 spacewalk with Earth in the background.
The devastating Hurricane Milton, a Category 4 storm at the time of this photograph, is pictured Oct. 8, 2024 in the Gulf of Mexico (renamed the Gulf of America) off the coast of Yucatan Peninsula from the International Space Station as it orbited 257 miles above.
The Soyuz MS-27 crew spacecraft is pictured Sept. 14, 2025 docked to the International Space Station's Prichal module as the orbital outpost soared 257 miles above a gleaming blue Atlantic Ocean, north of the Dominican Republic.
On December 16, 1992, eight days after its encounter with Earth, the Galileo spacecraft looked back from a distance of about 3.9 million miles to capture this remarkable view of the moon in orbit about Earth.
This graphic from the National Weather Service shows the cloud forecast for Monday, May 18 during a conjunction of the moon and Venus.
This graphic can help skygazers spot the moon and Venus in the night sky together Monday, May 18 during a celestial event known as a conjunction.
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