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The Qatar Calendar House announced today that the giant of the solar system, Jupiter, will meet the star Aldebaran in the sky of the State of Qatar and the Arab countries at dawn the day after tomorrow, Tuesday, the third day of the Hijri calendar, 1446. Ah, corresponding to July 9 this year, at this time the distance will be, and the angle between them will be about 4.7 arcs.
Dr Bashir Marzouq, an astronomer at Qatar Calendar House, said: “Residents of the State of Qatar can observe the stars Jupiter and Aldebaran together towards the eastern horizon in the dawn sky after Aldebaran rises at 2:27am, even before sunrise at 4:51am local time on Tuesday in Doha.
In a related context, he noted that conjunctions between the solar system planets will occur 11 times in 2024, with the next conjunction to take place on Monday, July 15, between Mars and Uranus.
The importance of this astronomical event lies in the fact that it is a great opportunity to watch, monitor and photograph the conjunction of Jupiter and Aldebaran at their closest point in the sky, in addition to confirming the accuracy of astronomical calculations in calculating the orbit of Jupiter. The movement of celestial bodies, especially the movement of the planets of our solar system, is a guide for amateur astronomers in the State of Qatar and the countries of the Arab region to understand the celestial bodies that can be monitored and seen every night in the sky.
It is worth noting that Jupiter is a giant planet among the planets in the solar system, with a diameter 11 times that of the Earth, and is also the fastest planet in the solar system rotating on its axis at 79°. Satellites, the most famous of which are the Galilean satellites Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, while Aldebaran is a huge orange star, one of the brightest stars in the Taurus constellation. It is called Aldebaran because it follows the Pleiades at sunrise and sunset. The diameter of the Aldebaran star is fifty times the diameter of the Sun.
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