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Exciting Triangle of Planets Before Sunrise / Rare Planetary Alignment (+Video)
Exciting Triangle of Planets Before Sunrise / Rare Planetary Alignment
Look east before sunrise in late October for a beautiful conjunction of bright planets.
Bright Venus and Jupiter – and fainter Mars – close together in east before dawn.
Look in the direction of sunrise as dawn begins to light the sky. Fainter Mars is also in the morning sky beneath Venus, and Mercury is the planet nearest the horizon at dawn.
http://earthsky.org/tonight/venus-reaches-big-milestone-in-morning-sky-on-october-26
EarthSky’s top 10 tips for super stargazers
Be faithful to the sky. One of the great things about becoming a stargazer is that you make a lifelong friend: the sky itself.
It’s a friend that lives right next door. And like any friend, the sky changes in subtle ways from day to day and year to year.
So, once you start watching it, be patient. You can’t learn everything about your friend at once. Be persistent. Watch the sky a lot and watch regularly.
You’ll learn by looking! And you’ll make a connection with nature that’ll last your whole life long.
http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/getting-started-2
Clips credit: ESA, NASA and ESO
