There are several meteor showers that occur throughout the year, so if you are interested in knowing what we can see in the sky during the fifth month of 2022, continue reading the information that we will tell you. offer below on the rain star calendar may 2022.
Contents
May 2022 star rain calendar
Unlike the month of April, when we will be able to witness the Lyrid meteor shower, in the month of May there will be no meteor shower, so the May 2022 meteor shower schedule sucksalthough that doesn’t mean the astronomical calendar isn’t entirely interesting this month.
- FROM APRIL 24 TO MAY 7 – JUPITER AND VENUS: After greeting Saturn and Mars, Venus for two weeks between April 24 and May 7 meets Jupiter for another bright, close encounter, easily visible on the eastern horizon in the same field of view.
- MAY 16 – TOTAL MOON ECLIPSE: The first of two total lunar eclipses predicted for 2022 will be visible from the east coast of North America, Greenland, the Atlantic Ocean, and parts of Western Europe and West Africa. Between May 15 and 16, the Moon will be totally eclipsed by the Earth and then slowly emerge from its cone of shadow.
- MAY 28-30 – MARS JUPITER IN CONJUNCTION: At the end of May, Jupiter continues on its way and meets Mars. Between the 28th and the 30th this conjunction will be seen well with a low power telescope. From the beginning of June, the two planets will meet to continue their solo tour.
This only for the month of May, if you want to be able to consult the complete astronomical calendar of 2022, we leave it below:
astronomical calendar 2022
- January 2, 2022 – New Moon
- January 3-4, 2022 – Quadrantid meteor shower
- February 16, 2022 – Mercury
- March 2, 2022 – Mercury Saturn conjunction
- March 20, 2022 – March Equinox
- March 23 – April 3, 2022 – Mars, Venus and Saturn
- April 5-6, 2022 – Mars and Saturn
- April 15-28 – Lyrid Star Shower
- April 24 to May 7, 2022 – Jupiter and Venus
- May 16, 2022 – Total Lunar Eclipse
- May 28-30, 2022 – Mars with Jupiter in conjunction
- June 14, 2022 – Full Moon, Super Moon
- June 19-27, 2022 – Five (plus one) planets and the moon
- July 13 – Full Moon, Super Moon.
- July 21, 2022 – Mars – Moon and Uranus
- July 17 to August 26-– Perseid meteor shower
- August 12, 2022 – Full Moon, Super Moon.
- August 14, 2022 – Saturn in opposition
- August 15, 2022: Jupiter meets the moon
- August 19, 2022 – The Moon between Mars and the Pleiades
- September 16, 2022 – Neptune in opposition
- September 23, 2022 – September Equinox
- September 26, 2022 – Opposition of Jupiter
- October 22 and 23, 2022 – Orionid meteor shower
- October 25, 2022 – Partial solar eclipse.
- November 8, 2022 – Total Lunar Eclipse
- November 9, 2022 – Opposition of Uranus
- December 8, 2022 – March to the opposition
- December 13 and 14, 2022 Geminid meteor shower
- December 21, 2022 – December Solstice
For more information, do not miss the dedicated to the meteor showers of 2022 in its entirety.