Conjunction Junction
It'll be worth getting up early on Sunday:
http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/SWD/Diary.html
The most compact gathering of three naked-eye planets between 1925 and 2053 will take place Sunday morning December 10, with prime viewing beginning one hour before sunrise. Jupiter, the brightest and still the lowest member of the trio, has already risen above the ESE horizon. Mercury appears just 0.3° above Jupiter, while faint Mars appears just one degree to their right. Saturn and the Moon are still close together, high in SW.
They're already pretty close right now, so you early risers can start watching tomorrow, and watch how the visual configuration changes day by day. It should be pretty easy to tell them apart (Mars is more orange/peach-colored than red, while Mercury is a tiny bright pinprick, and Jupiter can't be anything else but Jupiter because of its relative size) but at the moment they are sort of lined up Mercury-Mars-Jupiter from top to bottom.
http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/SWD/Diary.html
The most compact gathering of three naked-eye planets between 1925 and 2053 will take place Sunday morning December 10, with prime viewing beginning one hour before sunrise. Jupiter, the brightest and still the lowest member of the trio, has already risen above the ESE horizon. Mercury appears just 0.3° above Jupiter, while faint Mars appears just one degree to their right. Saturn and the Moon are still close together, high in SW.
They're already pretty close right now, so you early risers can start watching tomorrow, and watch how the visual configuration changes day by day. It should be pretty easy to tell them apart (Mars is more orange/peach-colored than red, while Mercury is a tiny bright pinprick, and Jupiter can't be anything else but Jupiter because of its relative size) but at the moment they are sort of lined up Mercury-Mars-Jupiter from top to bottom.