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.

Fiery red mars mars is at its brightest until the year 2035 will be near the harvest moon in late september and early october. Looking towards the eastern sky and peeking through the clouds should reveal the bright moon with a partner by its side. Yes that little red dot next to the moon will be our 4th planet from the sun mars. In tonight s tableau mars will be only 1 27 as large as the disk of the moon.

When bright reddish mars rises in the eastern sky at around 7 45 p m. The map also shows the phases of the moon and all solar and lunar eclipses. Posted sep 30 2020 fireball during geminid meteor shower over florida brian ottum ann arbor. Use it to locate a planet the moon or the sun and track their movements across the sky.

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

Mars will be much closer to earth than usual tonight and will. Local time on friday october 2 the gibbous waning. Friday october 2 all night bright moon meets mars image credit. Moon will meet mars tonight planet on closest approach to earth in 15 years the longest blood moon eclipse of the 21st century will coincide with mars traveling the closest to the.

When glancing at this unique appearance from the two astronomical features they will appear to be just grazing one another in the night sky. A full blue moon mars at its brightest and meteor showers updated sep 30 2020.