Here’s an almost full moon, ascending in the east in evening twilight.

You can often see the moon during the day. Try searching here at EarthSky for words like “halo around the sun,” “rainbows,” “iridescent clouds,” “the glory.” Or browse Les Cowley’s great website Atmospheric Optics. Read more: Do-it-yourself sunspot watching from Īnd of course, the sun is the source of a whole range of atmospheric effects, which are beyond the scope of this post. If you’re interested in sunspots, we recommend following the website, which tracks them and offers mobile phone alerts. And, in the coming years, the number of spots you see on the sun will gradually increase until the cycles peak. We’re in an ebbing phase of the cycle now, but we still sometimes receive photos from people of sunspots, captured through telescopes with safe solar filters. That’s because there’s an 11-year sunspot cycle, during which the dark spots on the sun’s surface wax and wane. That doesn’t take long, and, if you keep a record of what you see, you can notice profound changes over time. It’s easy and fun to count the number of sunspots you see from day to day. If you do take precautions – and rig up a simple indirect viewing method for sun-watching, like the one shown here – what would you be looking for? Most people look for sunspots, which are sometimes quite large. Gazing at the sun directly can damage your eyes. Obviously, you can see the sun during the day, but paradoxically, we’re told not to look, for fear of harming our eyes. Image via Rima Biswas in Baltimore, Maryland, December 2016.ġ. While not quite space related, they are sky related and well worth coming to know. In addition to the 10 items listed here, there are atmospheric phenomena such as this beautiful solar halo and sun dogs. That said, here they are, in increasing order of difficulty: your top 10 space objects to see in daylight. On the other hand, the observations toward the bottom of the list aren’t possible to predict. Aside from the first three listed below, each of these daylight observations is relatively difficult, but straightforward if you’re prepared. So here is a list of 10 surprising space objects to see in the daytime sky. Observing space objects in the daytime has its limitations and difficulties, but, as with all skywatching, it also has its rewards. If you think that daytime sky nature-watching is limited to clouds and birds, you might be missing out. Image via EarthSky Facebook friend Janet Furlong.

Where is it daytime right now