Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn are all visible in the evening skies this week. Mercury sits alone near the Sun, but Venus, Mars and Saturn are grouping together. Mercury is 25 degrees away from the Sun and 20 degrees away from the other planets. Venus, Mars and Saturn are all within 10 degrees of each [...]
Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn are all visible in the evening skies this week.
Mercury will be the most difficult to see, being only about 20 degrees away from the Sun at the beginning of the week, and 23 degrees away from the Sun by end of week. However, it is a bright magnitude 0 object.
Venus [...]
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As we approach the summer season, the heavens are putting on a show in the evenings. Spread from west to east across the sky at sunset, we see an array of planets. Venus will be the brightest of the group, shining in the western sky like a jewel, in the horns of Taurus the Bull. [...]
Most mornings at 6:05 a.m. you’ll find me standing at a bus stop, patiently awaiting the arrival of the bus that brings me to work. Not a bad ride, actually. What would normally be a 25 minute drive is a 45 minute trip, during which I have the freedom to read a book, be online [...]
The winter solstice occurs on Monday, December 21st, 2009, at 10:47 am, MST.
Solstice means sun stationary. This event marks the time when the sun is at its furthest point south of the celestial equator. The celestial equator is simply a projection of Earth’s equator out into space, and divides the sky into the northern celestial [...]
The Leonid meteor shower peaks at 9:00 a.m., MST, on Tuesday, November 17th.
There are predictions that observers in Asia may see several hundred meteors around the peak hour. However, under normal conditions, this shower produces 15-20 meteors per hour around peak time, so the best time to look for Leonid meteors would be the pre-dawn [...]
The night of May 5 through the early morning hours of May 6th will be the best time to see the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. This meteor shower results from none other than Halley’s comet, last seen passing by in 1986.
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