This week's Wednesday Walk is all about the celestial bodies in the night...er...dusk sky. I wanted to wait for this evening to grab some screenshots on my phone from the SkyView Lite mobile app.
I did a post last week about noticing two very bright object in the sky while on my evening walk. That post can be found at this link. Those two bright objects turned out to be Jupiter and Saturn. Cool, huh?
Then I began to wonder if there were other planets that were "visible" and it turns out there are up to 5 planets total (Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, and Mars) visible to us on here on Planet Earth at this time (September 2021).
Granted these in-app screenshots are not to scale, but I like knowing that with a powerful enough telescope or an ultra fast space ship (why don't we have warp speed spaceships yet?) we could see our neighboring planets.
Do you enjoy looking up at the night sky? If so, share some of your favorite night sky moments. Cheers!
