The Moon And Mars Tonight Live

Here are the best times to get views of the red planet and the moon.

The moon and mars tonight live. In tonight s tableau mars will be only 1 27 as large as the disk of the moon. Use it to locate a planet the moon or the sun and track their movements across the sky. Beta the interactive night sky map simulates the sky above new york on a date of your choice. Fiery red mars mars is at its brightest until the year 2035 will be near the harvest moon in late september and early october.

So to the naked eye it will appear not as a disk but as a non twinkling albeit brilliant star. When bright reddish mars rises in the eastern sky at around 7 45 p m. Friday october 2 all night bright moon meets mars image credit. Yes that little red dot next to the moon will be our 4th planet from the sun mars.

These next several nights september 4 5 and 6 2020 let the moon introduce you to the red planet mars. First with a full harvest moon later with a rare blue moon on halloween and now it s the red planet s turn to steal the show. Local time on friday october 2 the gibbous waning. Looking towards the eastern sky and peeking through the clouds should reveal the bright moon with a partner by its side.

Posted sep 30 2020 fireball during geminid meteor shower over florida brian ottum ann arbor. The map also shows the phases of the moon and all solar and lunar eclipses. Mars will be much closer to earth than usual tonight and will. When glancing at this unique appearance from the two astronomical features they will appear to be just grazing one another in the night sky.

Next month in october 2020 mars will supplant jupiter as the sky s 4th brightest. Mars is the closest it has been to earth in the last 15 years.