Instruction
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Bright objects that you can see without a telescope are Saturn, Mars, mercury, Jupiter and Venus. The last two planets seen any adult, especially Venus, because it is the third brightest object in the sky (of course, after the Sun and moon).
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Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, has a characteristic yellowish glow, so it is quite easy to calculate in the sky. On the background of white and bluish stars it is quite striking.
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Saturn and Mars often can be confused with the stars when they are maximally remote from the Earth. Saturn is just too far away, and Mars is not too large, so they are difficult to detect in the sky. However, when they are closer to the Ground, you can see them. But don't try to find them close to sunrise or just after sunset, their time – the middle of the night.
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The nearest planet to the Sun is difficult to see from Earth because mercury hides in the bright rays of the sun. Usually in the spring it can be seen in the Western sky in the evenings after sunset or before dawn in autumn in the Eastern sector of the celestial dome.
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All the planets move in the zodiac constellations. It is well known that these constellations not twelve. There are undocumented constellation Ophiuchus, and in it our Sun is in late autumn and early winter, it can be detected in this time a bright planet. By the way, that's why they need to look for in the zodiac constellations, but not in Orion, the Great bear, or Pegasus.
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The planets of our system can be divided into external and internal. The inside of that planets that are closer to the Sun than the Earth. There are only two, Venus and mercury. But the outer planets are usually referred to others. The inner planets can be seen only in the morning or evening sky, and external – throughout the night.