Monday, March 23, 2009

What's Up? for March 2009

JPL's lastest installment in their "What's Up?" series was recently posted. This month's topic is Saturn.

Venus is rapidly dropping towards the sun. Later this week, it'll pass between the earth and the sun and move into the morning sky. To see it before it disappears from the evening sky, look just above and a bit north of where the sun set. It'll be the extremely bright, star-like object.

In a telescope, it would look like a very narrow crescent.