I figured I’d give everyone a little heads up to a celestial alignment that is due to occur tomorrow. As anyone may have noticed who’s looked at the night sky to the southwest in recent evenings, two bright stars are very prominent in the sky. The brightest of the two is actually the planet Venus, the brightest natural light in the sky after the Moon. The lesser of the two lights is Jupiter.
Tomorrow’s night sky (December 1) will feature Venus, Jupiter, and the Moon into close proximity with one another and should provide quite a show. Here’s the best part: you needn’t have a telescope to view this alignment! Below is a chart of what to look for courtesy of Sky and Telescope.
In the future, I will try and notify readers a little further in advance of any celestial events, including, but not limited to planetary alignments, meteor showers, good sighting opportunities for the International Space Station/Space Shuttle, and any other relevant information that readers might take an interest in casually viewing. All observations that I’ll make note of will be visible to the naked, unaided eye unless otherwise noted and all notices will fall under a variation of the title “Star Watch.”