Planets in October 2010 in Western Hemisphere

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

Phew! It was a loooong break. As it is possible to see, my previous post is from last Christmas. It has been truly busy ride at my work, so I had to skip blogging this site. Now the circumstance looks much better, so it is time to continue writing Homeboy’s Astronomy Blog. Nowadays I am going to [...]

Planet triangle graces the western twilit sky

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

In case you look west after sunset, you’ll most likely spot the fourth brightest object inside sky*: Venus. But as I looked west recently, I noticed two bright(ish) objects just above it. It didn’t take me long to figure out that they were the planets Saturn and Mars. Both looked red due to their low altitude above [...]