Showing posts with label mars regulus leo astronomy planets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mars regulus leo astronomy planets. Show all posts

Monday, 7 June 2010

Mars & Regulus - a beautiful sight in the evening sky!

IMG_6509b

Mars and Regulus are just a degree apart in tonight's night sky. Their contrasting colours are a beautiful sight - so do take a look! But be quick, as Mars is orbiting the Sun, it is moving around the sky, and so it will only be close to Regulus for the next few nights.

Here are a couple of photographs that I took last night with a zoom lens. In the night sky, the two are separated by the width of a few of your figures at arms length!

06june10MarsRegulus