Look west at dusk on the first night of this month and you’ll see Venus next to Spica. Lately, the light from Venus takes 4 minutes, 40 seconds to reach us. The light from Spica takes 250 years! Southern hemisphere observers will see this first. Mercury is attempting to join Venus in the evening sky. […]
Tag: Gemini
As May starts, Orion sets shortly after the sun. The twins of Gemini are above him. Leo is just past the meridian with Jupiter at his belly. Virgo is high and still rising. Arcturus is high in the east. Jupiter is just about holding still in the sky when May starts, but it moves eastward […]