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See the moon close to Mars
The moon shall be passing by Mars on the nights of February 27 and 28, 2023. And the first quarter moon happens on the night of February 27, 2023. Then, it’s a waxing gibbous moon the next evening.
Mars has a roughly two-year cycle of visibility in our sky. And, for a lot of that cycle, it’s faint and inconspicuous. However – for a interval of about six months, each couple of years – Mars brightens and seems fairly purple. It occurs across the time Earth is passing between Mars and the sun. And that’s what occurred in December 2022.
We handed between the sun and Mars on December 8, 2022, when Mars reached opposition. So, we’re racing away from Mars now, in our smaller, sooner orbit. As a matter of reality, proper now Mars seems as large and brilliant as it’s going to for the remainder of the yr. That’s as a result of Mars has pale from its latest opposition at magnitude -1.9 to its present magnitude +0.4. Whereas that’s nonetheless brighter than most stars, Mars is now fading day by day.
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The celebs close to the moon and Mars
The reddish star close to Mars is Aldebaran, the Eye of Taurus the Bull. Aldebaran can information you to a V-shaped star cluster often known as the Hyades. Additionally, the fragile star cluster of the Pleiades shimmers close by.
Following the moon and Mars throughout the sky is the mighty constellation Orion the Hunter. Discover the reddish shade of Betelgeuse? How does its shade evaluate to Aldebaran and Mars?
Backside line: Look ahead to the moon close to Mars from nightfall till round midnight native time on the nights of February 27 and 28, 2023.
