Watch the skies: Tonight and Monday

[LongTomH]

The crescent moon will slide between Jupiter and Venus, shortly after sunset. Here's more from Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy website:

Over the next couple of nights, especially Sunday and Monday (March 25 and 26), a very thin crescent Moon will move in between the incredibly bright beacons of Venus and Jupiter in the west right after sunset.

Here’s a map of what it’ll look like on March 25 around 9:00 p.m. local time:

[Blue_In_AK]

1. Jupiter and Venus have been putting on quite a show.

They have been highly visible here in Alaska for weeks now. I hope to get out to see this tonight.

[onehandle]

2. Cool. It's pretty clear here tonight.

That will obviously be easy to spot, but this is a good excuse to crank up an augmented reality astronomy app on my new iPad and do some searching.

[ChazInAz]

3. I've been watching

this show develop for the past month! With Arizona's clear skies, it's fun to take out my two telescopes at night to watch the slow-motion performance. I suspect the neighbors are getting tired of hearing cries from my back yard of: "Oh, I say, well-orbited Mars! Capital display, Ganymede!"

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. thank you so much for the heads up!

We have a great view of the planets in the west and now we will know to poke out heads out at 9..