Moon, Venus and Mars Pose ‘Triple Threat’ in Early Morning Sky

The nice array of the moon and planets will be quite low, just about 15 degrees above the horizon. The bright appearance of Venus will continue for few more weeks.

Amongst all, the obvious celestial object goes to be the crescent moon, a sliver of yellow-white mild that can be simply 7% illuminated by the solar.

The forecast for Wednesday night, in most of the country, is clear skies and this is a very good thing for stargazers as Wednesday is going to be a great night to get a view of four remarkable sites in space: the worldwide Space Station as well as a trio of Moon-Venus-Mars. Venus is located 160 million miles from our planet earth.

As dawn creeps across Western Europe on the morning of Thursday, 10 September, a close conjunction of the two brightest objects in the nighttime sky is taking place in the constellation Cancer, low in the east an hour before sunrise. The event is expected to extend until October as Venus moves to its current position.

According to EarthSky.org, the moon and Venus rank as the second and third brightest celestial bodies after the Sunday. It finally relinquished the title of “Evening Star” less than a month ago and disappeared from view before beginning to appear in the morning instead. This albedo belongs to the everlasting cloud layer, surrounding the planet.

Venus is so brilliant within the sky due to its excessive albedo, or the quantity of sunshine it displays again into area.

Observers may visualize a much fainter Mars before twilight gets too bright due to its location which is 6.5 times larger than the distance between Venus and Earth.

To be precise, Venus is 34.3 million miles away from the Earth, while the Moon is just around 248K miles away, which is nearly 135 times nearer than Venus.