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Posts by
Bruce McClure
How to see 5 bright planets
In late February and early March 2019, you can see 2 planets in the evening and 3 planets before sunup. Here's how.
February 23, 2019
Year’s biggest supermoon on February 19, 2019
The full moon on February 19, 2019, presents the biggest supermoon of the year.
February 18, 2019
Watch for Venus and Saturn this weekend
Watch the great sky show before daybreak February 18, 2019, as the planets Venus and Saturn come to conjunction beneath Jupiter in the east before sunup.
February 16, 2019
Moon, Mars, Uranus from February 9 to 11
As darkness falls on February 9, 10 and 11, let the crescent moon guide you to Mars. Then let Mars guide you to the very faint planet Uranus.
February 9, 2019
Watch for a young moon after sunset
These next several evenings - February 6, 7 and 8, 2019 - present a grand opportunity to go young moon hunting.
February 6, 2019
Will you catch the moon and Saturn before sunrise February 2?
Jupiter and Venus will be very bright and up in the east before dawn. Saturn is below them - much fainter - near the moon on the morning of February 2.
February 1, 2019
Moon slides past 3 morning planets
The brilliant planets Jupiter and Venus - and fainter Saturn, which is also closer to the sunrise horizon - will all be passed by the moon in late January and early February, 2019.
January 29, 2019
Moon pairs with Regulus on January 22
The waning moon - fresh from an eclipse - and the bright star Regulus in the constellation Leo the Lion will rise over your eastern horizon in the hours after sunset tonight.
January 22, 2019
Venus-Jupiter conjunction on January 22
Enjoy the Venus-Jupiter conjunction in the predawn/dawn sky on January 22, 2019, as these two bright worlds meet each other at a near-maximum elongation from the rising sun.
January 21, 2019
The total lunar eclipse of January 20-21
It's a supermoon eclipse, and many are calling it a Blood Moon eclipse. The January 20-21, 2019, total eclipse of the moon will be viewed from North and South America, Greenland, Iceland, Europe, northern and western Africa plus the Arctic regions of the globe.
January 20, 2019
