Night Sky Opportunity

If you have some time this evening grab yourself a refreshing adult beverage and cast your gaze to the western sky immediately following sunset.  

With clear view conditions you will spy the planets Venus and Mars rising lowon the western horizon and appearing extremely close to each other. 

This astronomical phenomena is called a conjunction - and even though these planetary bodies are more than 74,000,000 miles apart they will appear only about a half a degree apart. 

Fingers-crossed for good viewing conditions and enough breeze to keep the skeeters at bay...