Spotlight
Moon, Planets, and Stars, February through April 2020
In the western sky at dusk, Mercury in February, and Venus in March-April, reach their highest positions and best visibility of 2020.
Follow the Moon and Naked-Eye Planets in December 2019 and January 2020
Venus becomes ever more prominent in the evening, while Jupiter, and then Saturn, disappears into the southwest twilight glow in December. Mars, very slowly brightening, appears in the southeast morning sky, with bright Mercury below it in the first…
Follow the Naked-Eye Planets in 2019-20 School Year and Beyond, August 2019 Through August 2020
Dawn and dusk twilight sky maps by Robert D. Miller. Sky Calendar illustrations courtesy of Abrams Planetarium, Michigan State University. Graphs of planet rising and setting times for School Year 2019-2020 by Jeffrey L. Hunt.
