Advertisements The chart shows the setting times of the planets visible without a telescope and stars near the solar system’s orbital plane for 2016.
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2016: The Morning Sky
Advertisements This chart shows the visibility of planets and bright stars near the planets’ orbital paths in the eastern morning sky in 2016. The chart
Read moreVenus and Mars This Morning, December 19, 2015
Advertisements Brilliant Venus shines from the southeastern sky this morning near the star Zubenelgenubi. Mars is 25 degrees to the upper right of Venus and near the
Read moreVenus and Mars This Morning, December 11, 2015
Advertisements Brilliant Venus gleams from the southeastern sky this morning. Dimmer Mars is distinctly reddish, appears 20 degrees to the upper right of Venus. In 10 days,
Read moreMars Passes Spica, December 21, 2015
Advertisements The eastward parade of planets continues in the southeastern sky during December. On December 21, Mars passes about 3.5 degrees from the star Spica. Venus
Read moreMercury’s Evening Appearance, December 2015
Advertisements The elusive planet Mercury makes an appearance in the evening sky late in the month. After passing superior conjunction in mid-November, the speedy planet moved
Read moreSaturn in Morning Sky, 2015
Advertisements Saturn re-enters the morning sky at 2015 closes. It can be found low in the southeastern sky as the sky brightens. The chart above
Read moreDecember’s Morning Planets 2015
Advertisements The morning celestial ballet of the moon and planets continues during December. Looking east during early December, Bright planets Venus and Jupiter dominate the eastern morning sky,
Read moreDecember 2015, Sun and Moon
Advertisements The Sun It’s December. Time for least sunlight and greatest darkness. The amounts of daylight and darkness are flipped from what they were six
Read moreChange of Latitude
Advertisements It’s those changes in latitudes, Changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, If
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