Notes from a beautiful place on the planet: part of the driftless area of northwestern Wisconsin at Lake Pepin, where the Mississippi winds beneath limestone bluffs and the night sky is unobscured. Thanks for visiting! ~Uri

July 9, 2008

Mars By a Nose!

Lots of interesting planet viewing lately: Saturn and Mars are marching together across the sky...tonight they are piggyback. Thursday, July 10th, the two will be even closer to each other. If you happen to look out in the wee hours, you will notice an unusually large and bright star in the southern sky, but it's not a star, it's Jupiter.  Spica, a star, and also very bright, is close to the first quarter moon tonight. 
Check out the Earth & Sky website for details»

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wow, I can see Jupiter plain as day! Thanks, Uri!