Hello people, tune in each week of 2023 for the perfect in astronomy from Astronomy Editor Dave Eicher, delivered to you by Celestron. Dave’s weekly video collection will cowl all the newest sky occasions, scientific outcomes, overviews of cosmic mysteries, and extra!
This week, put together for an thrilling observing occasion that can happen within the early night on Jan. 22, 2023: Dazzling shiny Venus and distant Saturn will sit lower than a level aside. That is so shut you’ll see each planets sharing the identical low-power telescopic area!
Video transcript:
Hello, I am Dave Eicher, Editor of Astronomy journal and welcome to This Week in Astronomy, delivered to you by Celestron, the world’s main producer of telescopes.
This week is admittedly thrilling as a result of we’ve a cool sky event happening on January 22, the early night sky.
You probably have a transparent sky, exit on that evening, look low within the west, and you may see Venus — dazzling shiny Venus down comparatively near the horizon.
For those who look carefully, you would possibly see that Saturn can also be proper subsequent to it, [less than] 1 diploma aside. And so they’re so shut that you could see the 2 of them collectively in the identical low-power telescope area. That is what astronomers name a conjunction of planets.
