Mars is coming, and if you have a telescope, you'll want to make the most of this opportunity in the coming months.
, the Bull and during this week it will rise at around 10:30 p.m. local daylight time. There is certainly no mistaking it once it comes up over the east-northeast horizon. Presently shining like a brilliant pumpkin-hued light of magnitude -0.4, Mars is currently ranks in third place after Sirius and Canopus among the 21 brightest stars.
Late on Friday night through early on Saturday morning , Mars will hover about 3.5-degrees to the right and slightly below a waning gibbous moon as they rise above the east-northeast horizon . As you will see for yourself, the Red Planet actually will appear closer to a yellow-orange tint — the same color of a dry desert under a high sun. How close?
We call these oppositions, because Mars appears diametrically opposite to the sun in the sky; when the sun sets, Mars rises. It reaches its highest point in the sky during the middle of the night and is setting just as the sun is beginning to rise. Oppositions of Mars happen a little more than two years apart, but not all of them are equal. Because both the orbits of Mars and Earth are mildly elliptical, some close approaches between the two planets are noticeably closer than others.
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