What was that weird blue glow in the sky.
Big light in sky last night.
The last great jupiter saturn conjunction was may 28 2000.
The moon won t be hanging around every night but you ve got a few nights around this conjunction where mercury will be sitting as high in the evening sky as you re going to see.
Starlink satellites seen after the first launch in may 2019.
At that time the blue tinted planet will be 4 light hours or 28 9 astronomical units from earth it will shine at a slightly brighter magnitude 7 8 and will be visible all night long in good.
The next one will be december 21 2020.
Unlike stars they generally don t twinkle as they have an apparent diameter large enough that the effect of turbulence in the earth s atmosphere averages out.
Beta the interactive night sky map simulates the sky above new york on a date of your choice.
If you ve looked up at the night sky recently you might have been surprised to see a train of bright lights moving.
Sa and wa residents reported seeing bright objects in a line in the sky last night.
Use it to locate a planet the moon or the sun and track their movements across the sky.
Planets will appear to move across the sky as the earth turns keeping their position with respect to the surrounding stars.
But september 2020 presents a fine time to start watching these worlds.
The map also shows the phases of the moon and all solar and lunar eclipses.