The Moon And Mars Tonight Live

Looking towards the eastern sky and peeking through the clouds should reveal the bright moon with a partner by its side.

The moon and mars tonight live. When bright reddish mars rises in the eastern sky at around 7 45 p m. In tonight s tableau mars will be only 1 27 as large as the disk of the moon. Jupiter and saturn pair up to adorn the evening sky. Mars is the closest it has been to earth in the last 15 years.

Friday october 2 all night bright moon meets mars image credit. Mars will be much closer to earth than usual tonight and will. First with a full harvest moon later with a rare blue moon on halloween and now it s the red planet s turn to steal the show. Here are the best times to get views of the red planet and the moon.

When glancing at this unique appearance from the two astronomical features they will appear to be just grazing one another in the night sky. Fiery red mars mars is at its brightest until the year 2035 will be near the harvest moon in late september and early october. These next several nights september 4 5 and 6 2020 let the moon introduce you to the red planet mars. Local time on friday october 2 the gibbous waning.

So to the naked eye it will appear not as a disk but as a non twinkling albeit brilliant star. Beta the interactive night sky map simulates the sky above new york on a date of your choice. Posted sep 30 2020 fireball during geminid meteor shower over florida brian ottum ann arbor. Moon will meet mars tonight planet on closest approach to earth in 15 years the longest blood moon eclipse of the 21st century will coincide with mars traveling the closest to the.

Use it to locate a planet the moon or the sun and track their movements across the sky. A full blue moon mars at its brightest and meteor showers updated sep 30 2020.