is it possible to see planets in the night sky with nacked eye? does it looks like shining stars?

Answer 1

Hi Aym!

There are five planets you can see with the naked eye. Depending on where you are, you may see as few as three or as many as five, if you know where to look.

First, planets are easy to spot. Forget the business about "stars twinkle, planets don't." It's so hard to notice the difference with the naked eye that I find this rule never works.

Replace it with this one: If it's a really bright object, it's likely a planet!

Tonight (Tuesday, March 13th) the two brightest objects in the sky other than the crescent moon early in the morning, are planets. Here's a summary:

1) Venus is the brightest object in the evening sky. Watch for it in the west, starting about 15 minutes after sunset. You can't possibly miss it. It sets about 9:30 p.m. Daylight Saving Time (earlier if you haven't gone to DST yet or if you're in the Southern Hemisphere).

2) Saturn, high in east as soon as it gets dark. Saturn is less bright than the other planets, but it is still the brightest object in its corner of the eastern sky. You'll see it in a sort of quadrilateral with three slightly dimmer objects. High in the EAST, not high in the south, in the evening sky.

(High in the south (from the Northern Hemisphere) early in these mid-March evenings is Sirius, the brightest true star in the night sky. Sirius will be brighter than Saturn. Venus is many times brighter than Sirius or Saturn, however. You'll see!)

3) Jupiter is only out in the early morning sky right now. Look south, from 4 a.m. until the dawn washes out the stars, and you can't miss it. Except for the moon, it's the brightest object in the early morning sky.

4) You probably won't see Mars unless you're in the Southern Hemisphere or the tropics and you know exactly where to look. It comes up low in the southeastern sky about an hour before the sun (in the Northern Hemisphere) and likely will be lost in the dawn. If you wait until Christmas, though, it will replace Venus and Jupiter as the brightest object in the evening sky! (Venus is still brighter, but by then will have moved into the morning sky.)

5) Even harder to spot would be Mercury, which has come out in the dawn sky this month. People in most of the Northern hemisphere can't see it, but if there are any readers in the Southern Hemisphere, you'd be in an excellent position to see both Mars and Mercury before dawn in your southeastern sky. They're in a corner of the heavens without bright stars, so, although Mars and Mercury are not dazzling right now, they'll still be the brightest objects in the southeast before the sun comes up.

Answer 2

YES. if you go out tonight and look towards where the sun has set you will see a very bright "star" that is venus, it will be the first "star" to come out tonight. when it gets dark look towards the constellation leo and the brightest "star" there is actually saturn. if you stay up late enough you can see jupiter right above scorpio in the constellation ophiucus. you wont see mars for a while but when you do you will know it, it is bright and very red or orange! that other guy said planets dont twinkle. that is a lie. planets twinkle when they are low enough in the sky. if you look up and see twinkling stars, look all around you at stars that are at about the same hieght, those stars will be twinkling too. throughout the night there are many stars at that same low level whereas planets only spend a few moments at those heights so many people never see them twinkling. but trust me they do, ive seen them!!!

Answer 3

March 2007

Mercury
Mercury is at greatest western elongation on the 22nd, and is low in the East-southeastern dawn at that time; it is never easy to see.
Venus
Venus dominates the early evening sky and on moonless nights can even cast a shadow (best seen on snow and in the absence of all other lighting.)

Mars
Mars is in Capricornus, low in the southeast shortly before dawn. It may be easier to see than Mercury, but not by much. It passes about a degree from telescopic Neptune at about midnight on Sunday, the 25th.

Jupiter
Jupiter is bright (but not as bright as Venus) and impressive, rising in the southeastern sky an hour or tswo after midnight. It is in Ophiuchus..

Saturn
Saturn is up basically all night, passing due South at roughly 10 p.m., fairly high overhead between Cancer and Leo. The bright star a few degrees to its left is Regulus in Leo..


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Answer 4

Venus often appears as the brightest star in the night sky, Mars appears as a red star and Jupiter appears as just another star.

Answer 5

Yes you can, Mars you can see, it will be a red dot. The difference between stars and planets on earth is that stars twinkle and planets don't. In space stars don't twinkle. The Earths atmosphere distorts stars and other objects.
Hope I helped.

Answer 6

Yes Mars is sometimes visible as a red dot.

Answer 7

Yes, you can sometimes see some of them. They usually look like stars with a color tint.

Answer 8

yes, you can see mars, saturn and venus. Thats how they found venus . By looking up with the naked eye.