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amateur astronomers - can you look this up for Las Vegas skies?

36.17191° N, -115.14° E

around 5am pacific / 8am eastern, looking east, maybe 5 degrees (or less) above the horizon - is that a planet?

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Venus (rising)




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Don't go 'round tonight
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There's a bad moon on the rise…


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When a moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, thats Amore.





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First off - It's a good thing Sigmonkey posted #1!

However if you're going to do 70's tunes, Shocking Blue was my favorite version of "Venus".


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Venus (rising)
thank you.

Venus rising

also emailed the local Las Vegas Astronomical Society poc and he confirmed it.

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emailed Greg from the Las Vegas Astronomical Society and he said:

Keep watching that area of the morning sky and by the end of December you'll see Jupiter rising in the same location.

Apparently, planets go through phases like the moon, which makes sense since what you are seeing is the the planetary surface reflection of sunlight. Greg sent me that link.
 
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saw Jupiter and Mercury rising to the east southeast ( 5:50am pacific ) far below Venus.
 
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If you have a smartphone, try installing the Google Sky Map app.

As the name suggests, it's a map of the astronomical objects in the sky, and it uses the sensors in the phone to show you the area of the sky you are pointing the phone at.

It's great for immediate answers to future questions like this.
 
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Stellarium is a cool desktop app similar to the one for the iPhone. And it’s free. You can enter your location in the app and see what’s visible from your location.
 
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Sky view Is my new favorite. You can actually see used decades old rocket bodies, satellites, and space junk.
 
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Missed it this morning, but if you look to the southeast you may see Saturn - and to the right Venus and then Jupiter.



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With the link above, if call up your location, you can see planet rise times etc. and change dates, change times.
 
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the outer planets (outside of our orbit will not show phases, but Venus - being between us and the sun, most definitely shows phases and they can even be seen through moderately powered binoculars.

Venus shows similar phases as does the moon (but not at the same time



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Originally posted by f2:
emailed Greg from the Las Vegas Astronomical Society and he said:

Keep watching that area of the morning sky and by the end of December you'll see Jupiter rising in the same location.

Apparently, planets go through phases like the moon, which makes sense since what you are seeing is the the planetary surface reflection of sunlight. Greg sent me that link.
I think you'll find that only the inner planets (Mercury and Venus) show any significant phases--even Mars is far enough out that it's mostly illuminated all through its orbit. According to what I've read, Mars can appear in a 3/4 phase; Jupiter and planets farther out essentially are always full when seen from Earth.

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