Spacy Stuff - Mars

If you have clear skies tonight you can see Mars in the South East sky, its the closest it will be to earth in a looooooonnnnnng time.

If you have binoculars or a telescope you can see the polar caps on the planet.

PS no looking at the foxy neighbour next door!!!!!

Maybe tonight will be clear - last night was too cloudy to see s**t here in New Jersey.

Kathleen

well it isnt clear here

not that i care, lol, it would be nice to see and everything but like, they overrate it all the time, it just never turns out cooool

lol

Cloudy up here as well id have liked to have seen mars like but dunno know if ill get the chance its been cloudy at night all the time

I saw it! I dont have a telescope though, so not close up! It just looked like a really bright pretty star.

ill be checking it out in 2 hours

Yeah, it was s**t here again as usual. Anytime there is something good to see, it is cloudy.

Yeah I just went outside to look and I couldn't even see the moon.

You can always tell the difference between a star and a planet.

Stars have a Pulsar, which means when you look at them they appear to flash, if you look at the stars in the sky they twinkle, thats the pulsar

Planets don't have this so they just appear to be a star without a twinkle, although mars can appear to change red/green sometimes this this is the shadow of the earth. Other planets you can see Venus nearly everynight at dusk

Thanks for that info!