Thursday, July 14, 2011

Mars in Taurus and by Auriga


This morning before sunrise at 4:15am, Mars and Taurus will have risen in the Eastern sky.  The Pleiades, forming one of the hooves of Taurus, will be almost directly East and at about the same height as Capella of Auriga.  Aldebaran, the eye of the bull–and one of my favourite stars–will be lined up nicely with Mars and Alnath of Capella, forming another horizontal line in the sky.  Along the ecliptic, Jupiter will be visible in the South-East sky, and the Moon will be setting in the West.

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