Saturday, April 7, 2012

Bright Planets, Big Moon

Venus continues to rule the western sky at dusk while its winter companion, Jupiter, continues to fall closer to the horizon as both Earth and Venus speed away from the King of the Planets.
Mars hangs to the left of Regulus near the lion's belly and outshines everything in the southern sky with the Moon sliding into its waning cycle after yesterday's full moon.
Saturn rises higher and earlier every night in Virgo, near half as bright Spica. Saturn will be directly behind the earth from the sun on April 15 and be up all night. The rings are tipped pretty well for viewing!!
Mercury is pulling away from us and will require binoculars for early morning risers.
The cool, dry air tonight will make for lovely star gazing.
Get out and look around!!

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