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Read more: Night sky for tonight: Visible planets, stars and more in this evening's sky Backward motion explained For the most part, the planets move eastward through the constellations.
“ Orion is a pretty awesome constellation because it's up for the majority of the night,” Faherty said. On Feb. 6, the star cluster Pleiades will appear near the moon.
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A decently dark site in a rural area has a sky background of about 21 mag/arcsec 2. In the Rocky Mountains in Colorado I’ve been to sites a bit darker than this, and it’s truly spectacular.
As the sky starts to darken, note that the Pleiades open cluster (M45) in Taurus will appear, hanging above the whole scene as it sinks toward the horizon. Sunrise: 6:20 A.M. Sunset: 7:40 P.M.
Update 4/10/24, 4:39 p.m. ET: This article was updated to clarify that a reference to the western and eastern horizons refers to the night sky.