Wednesday, July 14, 2010
A Dance of Moon and Planets
Evening sky looking North-west showing Mercury,Venus, Mars, Saturn and Regulus at 5:50 pm local time on Wednesday July 14. Click to embiggen.
Over the next few days there will be a delightful series of massings of the Moon, Regulus, Mars and Saturn. Provided, unlike me, you have no rain clouds covering everything, you can see the thin crescent Moon form a line with Regulus, Venus, Mars and Saturn on Wednesday July 14, then on the 15th the Moon forms a triangle with Venus and Mars and on the 16t h it forms a triangle with Mars and Saturn.
As well, if you are observing in the early evening, you can see fleet Mercury rise up frpm the horizon.
Over the next few days there will be a delightful series of massings of the Moon, Regulus, Mars and Saturn. Provided, unlike me, you have no rain clouds covering everything, you can see the thin crescent Moon form a line with Regulus, Venus, Mars and Saturn on Wednesday July 14, then on the 15th the Moon forms a triangle with Venus and Mars and on the 16t h it forms a triangle with Mars and Saturn.
As well, if you are observing in the early evening, you can see fleet Mercury rise up frpm the horizon.
Labels: Mars, Mercury, Moon, Saturn, unaided eye observation, Venus