Arcturus and Mars are both bright, orangeish-colored objects which can be found by continuing the arc of the Big Dipper's handle toward Spica.
(Shown about 10:00pm any night this week for mid-Northern latitudes.)
Scheduled air date: 1999 May 31-Jun 06
Arcturus and Mars are both bright, orangeish-colored objects which can be found by
continuing the arc of the Big Dipper's handle toward Spica.
(Shown about 10:00pm any night this week for mid-Northern latitudes.)
Arcturus is a rapidly-moving star headed in the direction of Spica (as seen from the
neighborhood of our Sun). As it moves away from us over the millenia, it will
eventually become too faint to see with the unaided eye.
(Arcturus is shown in its present position, with its path over the next 9000
years—from A.D. 2000 to 11000—indicated in 900 year intervals.)
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