Planets Visible in the Night Sky

Awesome page if your a sky watcher

Just add your location: www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/uk/salford

Or you can DL the software

www.hnsky.org/software.htm

 

I use to have a telescope and do sky observations but as my eyes got worse, I kinda of gave up because I couldn't see with any definition. I remember seeing Mars and Saturn, not good enough to see the rings but it was there as a glow.

 

There was also a app on my phone ages ago, where you could hold your phone and turn around and it used your compass and it would tell you or show you where you were looking and what constellation, planet etc. that you were facing or looking at.

 

It is wonderful

 

Damn, I couldn't view the video.
It took me to some weird alien language site.

 

Wether planets are visible or not, and at which hours, is usually standard info on most astronomy sites, even a lot of weather sites. Wouldn't download a special app for it.

 

For the uninitiated like me, it's easier to spot planets if you think of them as strung out along a line across the sky. They follow roughly the same path taken by the sun and the moon.

That's a consequence of their orbits around the sun all being in the same plane - the solar system is disk shaped.

 

i did a double take when i thought you said the solar system is dick shaped.

 

Funny you should say that. There are some beautiful flowers that cascade out of the stone walls near where I live. This year there's one patch that looks exactly like the natural shape of a woman's pubic hair. I tell myself it's a childish thought, but once you've noticed the shape you can't see any other way. I'll try to remember to take a photo next time I go past.

 

Since purchasing a telescope back in 1997 to observe the comet Hale-Bopp, the only nocturnal sightings I’ve observed since involved my neighbors buxom 18 year old daughter robing and disrobing,
topless teenage sunbathers, and a drunken pool party.

 

You're that neighbour huh

 

Yes, Venus is visible where I live in the countryside.