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 degree apart. Venus and Jupiter and moving closer together as they are 8 degrees apart… Read More ›
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 than the waning gibbous moon that is high in the south. Bright Jupiter appears low… Read More ›
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 month. By month’s end the sun is in the sky for 10 hours, 24 minutes…. Read More ›
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 17 degrees from Venus. Mars appears between the two bright planets, about 3 degrees to… Read More ›
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 it moves eastward in its orbital path. This morning they are 1 degree apart. Venus… Read More ›
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 objects in the sky. Mars and Jupiter appear to the lower left of Venus. This week watch Mars… Read More ›
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 now evident low in the east, although Venus is nearly 20 times brighter than Jupiter… Read More ›
Advertisements The moon joins Venus and Mars in the morning sky today at 5:15 a.m. CDT as seen from the Chicago area. This morning the planets are about 10 degrees apart and the moon is about 4 degrees from Venus…. Read More ›
Advertisements Venus is rapidly moving into the morning sky. (This observer first saw Venus on the morning of August 27.) On the morning of September 3, Venus appears about 9 degrees to the lower right of Mars. Venus appears about… Read More ›
Advertisements A recent appearance of Mars and Venus Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury appear together in the morning sky during the second half of 2015. Brilliant Venus moves from the evening sky to the morning sky. After the Great Epoch… Read More ›
