Advertisements Brilliant Morning Star Venus shines from the eastern sky this morning as seen from the Chicago area. Bright Jupiter and Mars are about 0.5 degree apart
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Venus, Mars & Jupiter, October 15, 2015
Advertisements Brilliant Morning Star Venus shines brightly from the eastern sky this morning as seen from the Chicago area. Bright Jupiter and Mars are less than one
Read moreVenus, Mars & Jupiter, October 2, 2015
Advertisements Morning Star Venus shines brightly from the eastern sky this morning as seen from the Chicago area. Venus outshines all other objects this morning other
Read moreOctober 2015: Sun & Moon
Advertisements Sun The hours of daylight continue to slip. The daylight shrinks by 81 minutes in the Chicago area and the mid-northern latitudes during the
Read moreVenus, Jupiter & Mars This Morning, September 30, 2015
Advertisements Brilliant Morning Star Venus shines in the eastern sky this morning as seen from the Chicago area. Bright Jupiter appears lower in the sky, about
Read moreVenus, Mars & Jupiter, September 26, 2015
Advertisements Venus, Mars and Jupiter shine from the eastern sky as seen from the Chicago area this morning. Mars passed the star Regulus yesterday as
Read moreSize of #Supermoon
Advertisements One of my astro associates posted this image in another venue and asked whether we could tell the difference between the two images:
Read moreVenus, Mars, and Jupiter, September 21, 2015
Advertisements Brilliant Venus shines from the eastern sky this morning as it has reached its greatest brilliancy for this morning appearance. It outshines all other starlike
Read moreMorning Planets, September 25, 2015
Advertisements Venus is the bright “star” in the predawn sky. Its brilliance can be seen in a clear sky well into morning twilight. Bright Jupiter is
Read moreLunar Eclipse, September 27, 2015
Advertisements On the night of September 27, the moon moves into the Earth’s shadow. Observers across the western hemisphere see a total lunar eclipse with
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