Backyard Universe: Planet poor evening sky slowly improves
I had a group of kids over to look through my telescope this winter and after eyeballing the moon through the scope one little guy asked, “What about planets?”Most prominent planets, I had to tell them, were all morning objects right now and were visible only in the predawn hours. Though planets Uranus and Neptune were indeed in the evening sky, their great distance makes them appear as little more than blue-green dots in the telescope eyepiece.The solar […]
