Jenney Disimon in Sabah, North Borneo caught Jupiter and Mars on January 5, 2018.
The planets Jupiter and Mars have been closing in on each other all week and are about to come spectacularly close in the predawn sky! You can see them before dawn no matter where you are on Earth. They’ll be located in the sunrise half of your sky, high above the sunrise point (southeast as seen from latitudes like those in North America and Europe). By the morning of January 7, 2018 – when the two will be in conjunction – they’ll be only 0.025 degrees apart, or about half a moon-diameter. Very wonderful to see!
Can you spot them? Yes! Just get up before dawn, look generally toward the sunrise, and your eye will light on Jupiter, the brightest starlike object in that part of the sky. Mars will be the reddish object nearby.
On the morning of Jupiter 7, the very bright planet Jupiter and fainter, reddish planet Mars will be in conjunction. Also look for the star Zubenelgenubi near them, and bright reddish Antares below them.
View larger. | Greg Hogan caught Mars and Jupiter near the star Zubenelgenubi in the constellation Libra on the morning of January 4, 2018. Mars and Jupiter will be closer on January 7!
Steve Pond (@aboveeg on Twitter) sent this awesome shot of the planets before dawn on the morning of January 3, 2018.
Dennis Chabot of POSNE NightSky Astrophotography caught Jupiter and Mars on the morning of December 30, 2017.
Steve Pond (@aboveeg on Twitter) captured the planets on December 28 ” … from a very cold and frosty southern England.”
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Jenney Disimon in Sabah, North Borneo caught Jupiter and Mars on January 5, 2018.
The planets Jupiter and Mars have been closing in on each other all week and are about to come spectacularly close in the predawn sky! You can see them before dawn no matter where you are on Earth. They’ll be located in the sunrise half of your sky, high above the sunrise point (southeast as seen from latitudes like those in North America and Europe). By the morning of January 7, 2018 – when the two will be in conjunction – they’ll be only 0.025 degrees apart, or about half a moon-diameter. Very wonderful to see!
Can you spot them? Yes! Just get up before dawn, look generally toward the sunrise, and your eye will light on Jupiter, the brightest starlike object in that part of the sky. Mars will be the reddish object nearby.
On the morning of Jupiter 7, the very bright planet Jupiter and fainter, reddish planet Mars will be in conjunction. Also look for the star Zubenelgenubi near them, and bright reddish Antares below them.
View larger. | Greg Hogan caught Mars and Jupiter near the star Zubenelgenubi in the constellation Libra on the morning of January 4, 2018. Mars and Jupiter will be closer on January 7!
Steve Pond (@aboveeg on Twitter) sent this awesome shot of the planets before dawn on the morning of January 3, 2018.
Dennis Chabot of POSNE NightSky Astrophotography caught Jupiter and Mars on the morning of December 30, 2017.
Steve Pond (@aboveeg on Twitter) captured the planets on December 28 ” … from a very cold and frosty southern England.”
from EarthSky http://ift.tt/2Cuqgup
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