K is brighter mostly because it is closer, only 162 light years away compared to 9’s 400-plus.Īll of those are easy binocular targets. They make a visual double but not a gravitational one, which means that they are accidentally aligned as seen from Earth. Note the nearby stars K and 9 Piscium (so named because they are in the constellation Pisces, the fish). It’s not the only reasonably bright ‘star’ in the field, so here’s a more printer-friendly map to take along: Mercury keeps fading this week, from magnitude +0.2 to +1.0. (Image credit: SkySafari app) Look up tonight (Jan. As the sky darkens, Mercury will come into view about 8 above Venus as shown below. Youll need binoculars to spot the skywatching treat Uranus and Mars will be visible close together in the night sky tonight, January 21, 2021. The first of them you may spot is Venus, bright at magnitude 3.9, very low exactly west-northwest. Grab some binoculars–any binoculars–to see moon craters, the moons of Jupiter, and Uranus, which will appear as a bright star just above and left of Jupiter (or north and east, if you prefer). This week, find Mercury and Venus low in the west-northwest in twilight. The moon and Jupiter are the easiest naked-eye objects in the skies right now. While the timing of its rise and set will depend on its location, from the regions around New York City, the planet will rise at 7:46 p.m. Here’s the view in Stellarium at about 6:00 PM, Pacific time, looking high in the south:
Skychart for uranus tonight zip#
The not-quite first quarter moon will zip past Jupiter and Uranus tonight (that is, Monday night, Dec.
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