JB USXP has been my #1 all time wiiner for me. I bot it at .025 watched for 20 minutes - entered sell order for .039 and went out. Just got back - bad news is USXP at .03 - Good news is it must have opped to .04 cus I am all out. I seem to do better when I am not looking - - betcha if I was watching I wooda cancelled that 3.9 sell and got greedy and put it at .049
By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY An after-dinner dessert now awaits sky watchers as five planets make appearances in the early evening sky.
Amateur astronomers with small telescopes should be able to see the moons of Jupiter. NASA
For the rest of the month, Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Venus and Mercury are visible at night without a telescope, astronomers say. (Related graphic: Nature's twilight show)
Mercury will drop out of sight in early April, but the remaining four will extend their engagement through May.
"The hardest part for most people will be identifying Mars and Mercury," says Ken Graun, author of Touring the Universe: A Practical Guide to Exploring the Cosmos Thru 2017. "Mars is fading, and Mercury is always a difficult little bugger to catch."
Graun advises sky watchers with a sky chart to look for Mercury just after sunset, as a little darkness colors the sky, "or else it will go down even before you notice it."
The five planets, all the ones that were known to ancient astronomers, make such group appearances only once every few years.
The ancient Greeks called these celestial objects "wanderers" because, when seen from Earth, they appear to follow meandering paths compared with the stately regular motion of stars. These seemingly looping trajectories are the result of the way the planets race around the sun. Earth is always either lapping them — as is the case with Mars, Jupiter and Saturn — or being lapped by the others in their orbits around the sun.
Venus, which is only about 70 million miles away right now, will be the brightest object in the sky after the sun and moon.
This week's planetary grouping is just a warm-up for the year's big astronomical event — the June "transit" of Venus, when the planet passes between the sun and Earth, says astronomer George Kaplan of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.
Astronomers will be watching that passage carefully, hoping to record the light spectra of Venus' atmosphere. They want to someday compare that atmospheric profile to the light emanating from planets orbiting nearby stars.
Mars makes its closest pass by the moon tonight, nearly being eclipsed, says astronomer Tony Phillips of the Science@NASA Web site (science.nasa.gov), which should provide some help in identifying the Red Planet. Look for a dim orange object to the right of the moon and to the left of Venus.
Amateur astronomers with small telescopes should be able to see the rings of Saturn and the moons of Jupiter as well, Phillips says.
So with spring weather finally blossoming in much of the country, this might be the right night to cast your eyes skyward.
A similar gathering of five planets in the nighttime sky doesn't come until 2008, Phillips says. "And the clear view we get this week won't be this good again for another 30 years."
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