Best seen from the southern hemisphere, Venus and Mercury grace our evening sky at the start of the month. They set not long after the sun. And not long into the month, they’re both difficult to see from the north. Both continue getting harder to see from anywhere as they head toward inferior conjunction. Venus […]
Tag: Neptune
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. […]
Mars is between the fish of Pisces when February starts. During the next few evenings, it will move from the western fish to the eastern fish. Uranus is waiting in the space between the easternmost fish and Aries for a close call with Mars on the 13th. The two planets will be 1° apart. A […]
Jupiter and Venus are separating in the evening sky after sunset after that remarkably close conjunction on August 27 and 28. Both are barely above the horizon. Venus is going leftward or to the south. It will stay above the horizon just after sunset all month while Jupiter gets lost in dusk’s glare. Find a thin […]