Some planets are easy to spot — Venus, for example, the morning star, the evening star. Others take a bit more effort to see with the naked eye, like Mercury, Mars, Jupter and Saturn. Uranus and Neptune require some technical assistance. And Pluto is more challenging still. Emily gives the full rundown on how you too can collect all the planets, and fill in our handy Official Syzygy Planet Spotting Scorecard!
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Things we talked about in this episode:
The Podcast Social Club — Live Show! Nov 22-23
The Official Syzygy Planet Spotter Scorecard
Stellarium app for stargazing
NASA’s overview of the planets
Retrograde motion of the planets
Saturn has more moons than Jupiter
Exoplanet-hosting stars: Pollux, Formalhaut and Proxima Centauri
Hubble image (!) of Fomalhaut b