Can I see any planet in the sky without a telescope?

Answer 1

Yes. You can see Venus and Mars without a telescope.

Answer 2

Only Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Seeing the other planets, even with a telescope, is very difficult. Mercury is too near the sun and if you don't want to fry your eyeballs you have to see it right before sunrise. Just a little dot, probably not worth the effort. The outer planets are vey faint and you really have to know where to look, based on where you live on the planet and what day it is. To see Pluto takes an observatory telescope.

Answer 3

It depends on how well you are able to see. An easy one to see in the morning just before dawn is Venus: look towards the Sunrise; you can also see that particular planet during a Solar Eclipse. Mercury is another you can see just before Sunrise. At night there are a few planets easily viewed without a telescope: Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. I am not so sure about Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, or any of the newly discovered planets. Brian

Answer 4

It is possible to see Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, or Saturn
without a telescope if you look in the right place in the sky
from an appropriate Earth vantage point at the right time of night.
The outer planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto can be seen only through a telescope.

Answer 5

Mars, Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter are all bright enough to see without a telescope in even a moderately lighted neighborhood and are often higher in the sky so that you can see them without a complete view of the horizon. Jupiter and Venus can be exceptionally bright at times.

Mars will not be visible this August. The email that tipped some other people off is from several years ago and is exaggerated.

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/051230_night_sky.html

http://stardate.org/nightsky/planets/

Answer 6

Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn (and hopefully Earth) should be visible, although not necessarily recogniseable without a telescope. With a good pair of binoculars you may be able to make out some of Jupiter's moons. With a decent spotting scope you can just see Saturn's rings. There is some software available to tell you where to look, just do a search for stargazing software and I'm sure you'll find something.

Answer 7

It depends on what planet it is. If it is an inner planet [Mercury,Venus, Earth, and Mars] plus obviously the Sun, than you might have a chance of seeing these planets, the reason why it is unlikely to see the outer planets, [Jupiter, Saturn Neptune Uranus and Pluto] is because there is a long, wide asteroid belt that divides the outer and inner planets.

Answer 8

You can see Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus.
The first 5 planets mentioned are well-known to be visible with the naked (un-aided) eye. Therefore, for my source, I am only including a reference to a wiki page on Uranus' visibility.

wiki says:
#wikiquote:
The brightness of Uranus is between magnitude +5.5 and +6.0, so it can be seen with the naked eye as a faint star under dark sky conditions.

Just in case you doubt the fact about Neptune, I quote wiki:
#wikiquote:
Neptune is never visible with the naked eye.

url:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune#Appearance_and_visibility_from_Earth

If you are aware of Pluto's very small size and distance away from Earth, you will take it as a no-brainer that it is always invisible to the unaided human observer's physical eyes.

Answer 9

Mars, and pay close attention during the last 2 weeks of August, because Mars will be at its closest point to Earth, thus in many areas of the world it will be the size of a full moon, so don't miss out on capturing such a once in a life time event:)

Answer 10

No. each and each and every time an primary on Astronomy & area has requested a declination and top acension or hour perspective (coordinates) for Nibiru (no longer PLANET X) the reaction has been entire silence. Planet X is an completely distinct merchandise from Nibiru.