Tonight offers up a rare chance to see five planets in the night sky.
Photographers around the world may want to point their lenses to the western night sky tonight to capture a rare image of five planets lined up.
Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, and Mars will all hang out together with the Moon on Tuesday night giving shooters the chance to capture six celestial bodies in one frame. The five planets will be visible from anywhere on Earth, all that’s required is a clear view of the sky with no clouds. The planets will stretch from the horizon line to roughly halfway up the night sky.
However to catch a glimpse of this event, sky gazers will have to be quick because Mercury and Jupiter will quickly disappear below the horizon just half an hour after sunset., says that “Unless you have a clear sky and a nearly flat western horizon free of obstructions such as trees or buildings, you won’t see Jupiter and Mercury.”
Right now you can see Mars, Uranus, Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury at dusk. A great time to visualize our cosmic family and get a feel for how these things sit along the ecliptic plane. This is a composite image from a briefly period last year when it was visible before dawn.
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