CAN & US ppl WATCH PLANET MARS...

GO OUT SIDE...and check out the sky...if its dark enough you will see a really really shiny star in the sky...if you zoom into it using a digital camera or binoculars...you will be able to see in great details that its planets MARS...yup...i did a little vid recording of it...and its only 9 pm and its a bit bright or not dark enough yet...so am gonna wait a bit more till midnight and than record again...so go ahead and check it out...right about now or a lil while after...others can watch too but at night time only...and mars will only come this close to earth in another 2738 years...so you can see the odds of that...lolz...

mods i know this has absolutely nothing to do with SRGMP than just me wanting some if not all of our members to have a treat...plz sticky if possible...thankyou...

Can we please have subject not in all caps.. it makes difficult to read it... Thanks in advance....

Can you please tell in which direction?
Am to lazy to go outside and walk all over the place to look for MARS 😆


+ IT's a full moon!!
Never seen the moon so huge😃

oMggggggggg its soooo gorgzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
one is soooo brIGHT ...THE OTHER IS LIGHTER.
OMG!!!!!!!!

its rotating away too slightly...have fun guys...yup earth will have two moons today...one is mars that is...

its not dark here yet in california

Watch the Sky!

Never again in your lifetime will the Red Planet be so spectacular! This month and next month the Earth is catching up with Mars, an encounter that will culminate in the closest approach between the two planets in recorded history. The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287. Due to the way Jupiter's gravity tugs on Mars and perturbs its orbit, astronomers can only be certain that Mars has not come this close to Earth in the last 5,000 years but it may be as long as 60,000 years.

The encounter will culminate on August 27th when Mars comes to within 34,649,589 miles and will be (next to the moon) the brightest object in the night sky. It will attain a magnitude of -2.9 and will appear 25.11 arc seconds wide. At a modest 75-power magnification Mars will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. Mars will be easy to spot.

At the beginning of August, Mars will rise in the east at 10 p.m. and reach its azimuth at about 3 a.m. By the end of August when the two planets are closest, Mars will rise at nightfall and reach its highest point in the sky at 12:30 a.m. That's pretty convenient when it comes to seeing something that no human has seen in recorded history. So mark your calendar at the beginning of August to see Mars grows progressively brighter and brighter throughout the month. Share with your children and grandchildren. No one alive today will ever see this again.

I just saw something on youtube, and it said as big as a full moon

Is it as yellow as a full moon?

i can't evn see the moon forget 'bout the mars 😭 😭

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& btw the article is dated August 27 2003.. so i'm very confused😕😕

2738 years! we're lucky to have the opportunity to see it 😃 now let me hunt for my binoculars 😛