Bright Blue Light In The Night Sky

Use it to locate a planet the moon or the sun and track their movements across the sky.

Bright blue light in the night sky.

At that time the planet in question is as close as it gets just 0 4 au so bigger and because it s 100 illuminated from our point of view it s as bright as it can be in our night sky. Beta the interactive night sky map simulates the sky above new york on a date of your choice. The map also shows the phases of the moon and all solar and lunar eclipses. If you ve looked up at the night sky recently you might have been surprised to see a train of bright lights moving.

At that time the blue tinted planet will be 4 light hours or 28 9 astronomical units from earth it will shine at a slightly brighter magnitude 7 8 and will be visible all night long in good. Planets will appear to move across the sky as the earth turns keeping their position with respect to the surrounding stars. Jupiter and venus can both be strikingly bright. Unlike stars they generally don t twinkle as they have an apparent diameter large enough that the effect of turbulence in the earth s atmosphere averages out.