Planets Visible Tonight Indiana (2024)

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Night Sky Bright Planets for Indianapolis, IN

Body	Rises	Sets
Saturn	8:17 P.M. E	7:35 A.M. W
Uranus	11:11 P.M. NE	1:35 P.M. NW
Neptune	8:43 P.M. E	8:40 A.M. W
Pluto	6:15 P.M. SE	3:36 A.M. SW

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The planets appear to move across the sky, against the background of the much more distant stars. Planets appear as bright or brighter than most stars, and unlike stars, they tend to glow with a steady light, where stars often flicker.

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are the five brightest planets in our night sky and, therefore, observable by most people.

Over the course of days and weeks, these planets appear to change position against the starry sky, and they go through phases where they are visible from Earth. Their visibility is determined by the interaction of light from the sun and the planets' own shadows.

The brightest star in the night sky? You're right, it's Sirius (mag. -1.45), which coasts low above the southern horizon for most of us in the northern hemisphere during the cooler months.

Sky Tonight

• Sun. Our Star. ↗ 07:14 ↘ 19:43 ↑ -12° ☼ -26.7 ✣ 32' ...
• Moon. Waxing Crescent (16%) ↗ 11:21 ↘ 21:52 ↑ -57° ☼ -7.9 ✣ 30' ...
• Jupiter. Outer Planet. ↗ 05:22 ↘ 14:51 ↑ 65° ☼ -2.3 ✣ 39.2" ...
• Mars. Outer Planet. ↗ 05:22 ↘ 15:48 ↑ 57° ☼ 0.7 ✣ 6.7" ...
• Uranus. Outer Planet. ↗ 05:22 ↘ 13:05 ↑ 72° ☼ 5.7 ✣ 3.7"

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Spot the five naked-eye planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn—no telescope needed! We also explain how to see Uranus and Neptune through a telescope.

With the naked eye:

• Mercury: moderately bright, always very close to the Sun so only visible near sunrise or sunset.
• Venus: can be extremely bright, white, always fairly close to the Sun.
• Earth: you know what this one looks like.
• Mars: moderately to very bright, reddish.
• Jupiter: very bright, white.

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How can you tell which planet you are looking at during the evening/night?

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The five brightest planets are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. So long as you know when and where to look you can spot all five of these spectacular planets, just as people have enjoyed doing since ancient times.

Venus is an easier planet to observe with a telescope than Mercury. Astronomers can more easily view Venus' changing phases and size changes; while the innermost planet looks twice as big when between Earth and the Sun than it does when it lies on the far side of our star, Venus is more than six times larger.

What are all the lights in the sky tonight? ›

What are the mysterious lights in the sky? It's likely Starlink!

Tonight the comet will be at least 25 degrees high in the sky from 10 p.m. until dawn, and this changes to 9 p.m. until dawn for Thursday evening, figures from Sky & Telescope Magazine show. On Friday and Saturday, on the other hand, C/2022 E3 (ZTF) will be higher than 25 degrees from 7 p.m. until dawn.

You can never see Mercury or Venus at midnight, and Uranus and Neptune are not naked eye observable. The inner planets Mercury and Venus.

Earth is the only planet known to support life.

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Stars are not visible in their original position at 11 pm compared to 7 pm because the Earth rotates on its axis, causing the stars to appear to move across the sky. As the Earth rotates, the stars appear to rotate around a point near the North Star (Polaris) in the northern hemisphere.

The Perseid meteor shower is an annual summer delight for skywatchers and the best time to watch happens this weekend. Weather permitting, Indiana's night sky will come alive with fiery streaks of light zipping through Earth's upper atmosphere.

An orange Moon

Closer to the horizon, moonlight passes through a thicker part of Earth's atmosphere, causing scattering of blue and violet light. The effect is that when we view a low-down Moon, it appears redder. Observe the Buck Moon when it's rising and setting.

Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, and Mars could be visible to the unaided eye during totality on April 8, 2024. Mercury (to the upper left of the eclipsed Sun) and Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks (to the right of Jupiter), not labeled here, will likely be too faint to see without binoculars or a telescope.

When was the last time all the planets aligned? The last time all planets aligned was on April 8, 2024. The planetary alignment was visible during the total solar eclipse in the USA, Canada, and Mexico.