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Starwatch: Crescent moon slips past Spica in early morning sky – MSN UK
Virgo’s brightest star is 250 light years away, with a diameter more than seven times larger than the sun’s
Starwatch star chart moon and Spica 4 January 2021
This week, the waning crescent moon slides past Spica, the brightest star in the constellation of Virgo, the virgin. The passage takes place in the morning sky.
The chart shows the view looking due south from London at 6am (GMT) on the morning of 7 January. The moon will have 40% of its visible hemisphere illuminated, having just passed its last quarter phase.
Beyond 7 January, Spica will rise more or less at the same time each night, but the moon…
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