Where can I find a schedule of when you can see Mars?

Question

I already looked on NASA's website, I'd love to see it

Answer 1

I have two suggestions:

First, go the the web site
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/
You can click on "This Week's Sky at a Glance" and get a roundup of planets for the week; or you can click on the box labeled "Launch interactive sky chart". This brings up a map that can be customized for any location and time, and it shows the stars and the planets.

Second, go the web site
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/~spider/spider/Mars/marsopps.html
This shows the oppositions of Mars far into the future. The best times to see Mars are near the opposition dates -- 12/24/2007, 1/29/2010, etc.

If you're talking about seeing Mars in the next few days, just go out almost any time at night. Mars is up all night, but if you're using a telescope, it's better to look when it's high in the sky -- from about 8 PM to about 4 AM. During those hours, it will be high in the eastern sky before midnight, and high in the western sky after midnight.

-- added a few minutes later:
As Jackolantern says, it is very bright and reddish-orange. It's the brightest thing in the night sky except the moon and Venus (which is up before sunrise); so you can't miss it in a clear sky.

-- one more addition:
Try to look at the sky on the evening of Sunday, December 23; the full moon and Mars will be very close, and will make a nice sight. The closest approach is about 10 PM Eastern Time and about 7 PM Pacific Time. In parts of the world, the moon will actually move in front of Mars. (According to the 2007 Observer's Handbook, Mars will disappear behind the moon in NW Canada, Alaska, E Europe, NE British Isles, and a few other places.)

Answer 2

Right now Mars is within a few days of opposition (on the 24th) so you don't need a schedule: you can see it all night, every night! It's in the east in the evening, overhead at midnight, and in the west at dawn. The only things brighter in the sky are the Moon and Venus (which rises in the east around 4 a.m.) You really can't miss it!

Answer 3

I don't know where you live and it shouldn't make any difference since Mars is the brightest thing in the sky except the moon right now. You will know it because it is also slightly red or brownish. And if you have a telescope, you can actually make out the round planet.

Answer 4

As Bob and several others have already said------- just go outside about 1 hour after dark and look toward the NE for a BRIGHT orange colored "star" ------- that's Mars---- you cannot miss it.

Answer 5

look here;

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&&q=mars+in+december

astronomy.com

universetoday.com

jpl.nasa.gov