Elon musk already helps keep the lights on in south australia but now he s lighting up the sky.
Big light in sky last night.
But september 2020 presents a fine time to start watching these worlds.
Use it to locate a planet the moon or the sun and track their movements across the sky.
Unlike stars they generally don t twinkle as they have an apparent diameter large enough that the effect of turbulence in the earth s atmosphere averages out.
And that s what was happening friday night as numerous twitter posts surfaced from people who said they saw a bright light streak across the nighttime sky over phoenix sometime around 9 30 p m.
The last great jupiter saturn conjunction was may 28 2000.
At that time the blue tinted planet will be 4 light hours or 28 9 astronomical units from earth it will shine at a slightly brighter magnitude 7 8 and will be visible all night long in good.
The next one will be december 21 2020.
Beta the interactive night sky map simulates the sky above new york on a date of your choice.
Planets will appear to move across the sky as the earth turns keeping their position with respect to the surrounding stars.
What was that weird blue glow in the sky.
If you ve looked up at the night sky recently you might have been surprised to see a train of bright lights moving.
Sa and wa residents reported seeing bright objects in a line in the sky last night.
The map also shows the phases of the moon and all solar and lunar eclipses.