Planet Scenes March 2020
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March 30: Venus nearing Pleiades
By the end of March, 2020, Venus was nearing the Pleiades star cluster, which it will pass by in the first few days of April. We've had bad weather for over two weeks now, so since it was clear on March 30 I decided I had to get a picture since the weather forecast is for more clouds and rain over the next week. |
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March 7 and 8: Five Planets!
These images show the planet scenes on the evening of March 7 and the next morning, March 8, 2020. Venus is just overtaking Uranus in its march toward inferior conjunction in early June, and we can already see that it is beginning to veer off of the ecliptic as it heads toward the Pleiades. The morning sky this winter has been adorned by the evolving view of the three bright outer planets; note that both Jupiter and Saturn are in a part of their orbit that puts them virtually right on the ecliptic ~ the reason that their conjunction later this year will be one of the closest in many years. |