When is the best time to see Venus on a bare eye?
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Hi! Venus in the sky is an amazing sight! Being an inner planet of the solar system, Venus is only visible for a few minutes either just before sunrise or just after sunset.\n\nThe best time to view the planet is before sunrise. You will be able to observe Venus in the east. Check your local newspaper for the timings of the sunrise. Preferably, go to a place at high elevation so that Venus is not obscured by any high buildings there may be.\n\nHope you have a good sighting of the morning star soon!
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Mars and Saturn, Venus in the evening, and you're in for a real treat clouds permitting. Mercury was at it's greatest Western Elongation only last Sunday a whole 28 degrees West, so very visible in the morning, magnitude 0.41\nDon't forget the Lyrids meteor shower on the 22nd will you.
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Probly Early morning or late after noon. That way there is sunlight (plants need it you know) and its not extreamly hot or cold.
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Depends what time of the year it is etc. but you can nearly always see Jupiter and Saturn and if a planet is at opposition then it is at its brightest when viewed from earth. Venus and Mars are also easy to spot. Mercury is elusive as it is generally close to the sun. I don't think you can see Pluto without a telescope, or Neptune and Uranus without some form of magnification e.g. binoculars
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It's visible from Earth at night with the naked eye so it has been known since ancient times. It appears as one of the brightest "stars" in the sky and is most noticeable in the early evening or early morning - it is sometimes called "The Morning Star" or "The Evening Star". Venus' orbit is shorter that the Earth's (only 225 Earth days) this means that it 'overtakes' the Earth every 584 days as it orbits the Sun. As it does so, it goes from being the 'Evening star', visible after sunset, to being the 'Morning star', visible before sunrise.\n\nSeveral other planets are visible at night without the aid of telescopes - in particular Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. These planets were observed to behave differently in their movements across the sky due to the fact that they are orbiting the Sun whilst "normal stars" remain static and their apparent motion is due to the Earth's own movement. For this reason the visible planets, including Venus, were known as "Wandering Stars".\n\nPythagoras is usually credited with recognizing that the morning and evening stars were a single body in the 6th Century BC, although he thought that Venus orbited the Earth. In the 17th Century Galileo found that Venus showed phases like the Moon's which he correctly stated could be possible only if Venus orbited the Sun.
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Well if it's directly at the sun, then I'd say no more than 10-15 seconds, but if you're just staring, but not exactly directly at it, I'd say roughly around 20-25 minutes.
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The next shower that appears with regularity is the Lyrids during April 16-25 (peaks Apr. 22). You should be able to see anywhere from 10-15 meteors per hour. Slightly closer but much less impressive is the Corona Australids during Mar. 14-18. \n\nTo see these showers look in the direction of the constellation that they are named after. Note: you need to spend a good 30 min in order to see just a handful. If there is a full moon then you will see less than if there was no moon out.
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Depends on your location.  From the United States, you can find the constellation Scorpius low in the southern sky primarily during the summer months.  Currently (early April), it's at its highest around 5am DST.  Early next month, it will be most visible around 3am DST.  For each successive month, it's at its highest about two hours earlier than in the previous month, so by early August it will be best seen around 9pm DST.  It's low in the sky, however; even from the southern states, its brightest star Antares never rises higher than about 1/3 of the way from horizon (where the sky meets the ground) to zenith (directly overhead).\n\nA side-note; you may notice a very bright "star" this spring and summer, somewhat higher and to the right of Scorpius; this would be the planet Jupiter.\n\nA good site that generates a sky chart for any location can be found at:\nhttp://www.heavens-above.com
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You can see them. but not right now. if you want to see the same sky as asturiala sees right now wait till fall.
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Mirage !\nWhen you have a free view to the horizon, you can see it anywhere if the weather conditions are good.
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Unless you want to look at the moon,  you want a calm clear night with NO moon.  So, a night with low humidity, no to little breeze (causes turbulance in the light you see), and you want it dark.. so no moon or near new moon.  If it's too cold, there may be ice crystals in the air and that causes a halo around things.\n\nThe higher up in the atmosphere you can get the better.  \n\nIf you want to see a certain thing, you have to wait till that thing is directly overhead to see it most clearly.  That way you are looking through as little air as possible.
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It really depends on where you are.  For northernly latitudes, Ursa Major (big dipper), Ursa Minor (little dipper), and Cassiopeia are generally visible on any night of the year.
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the flight path would start off heading northeast, hours later it would be due east, then a bit to the southeast over europe (to follow the arc of the great circle between the two cities).  from an altitude of 35,000 to 40,000 feet, you would be able to see stars that are typically below the horizon at those latitudes.  sitting on the right side of the plane, you would be looking south.  for the beginning of the trip, you would be looking at the winter stars, including sirius (the brigthest star in the sky), rigel and betelgeuse (in orion), and procyon.  saturn will also be visible in this direction and will not be quite as bright as sirius.\n\nmars is not very bright at this time -- definitely no brighter than surrounding bright stars.  after a local time of 10pm, jupiter will rise in the east, so by a local time of 1am, it would be a very bright object in the southern sky and visible out your window.\n\nvenus is only visible in the morning sky now, so you would only see it as you were approaching europe.  it can be either an evening star or a morning star, but never both at the same time.  venus is never visible at or near local midnight.\n\nto get the local time, you would have to know what timezone you were in at each point in your flight and adjust from u.s. central time as you fly.
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The Geminids ramp up over a few days, and should be visible most of the night, from around 10PM to dawn. Basically you need a location where you can see as many stars as possible.
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VENUS !!!!!! been usingit for about 4 yrs !
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For CA and west coast its best to view in the hours before dawn Sat and Sun. Although I think I read you might be able to see something around 8PM - 10PM Saturday, Look towards the east.
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the trick is to know a few key stars (bright) by name. if you can identify, say, sirius, vega, altair, deneb, antares, arcturus, then you have pinned down the major constellations.\n\nthe only planets you can see with the naked eye are venus, mars, jupiter and saturn and very rarely, mercury. uranus is just at the limit of possibility on an extremely clear night with excellent vision.