Planets

Track the wanderers — Mars, Jupiter, Saturn — across the ecliptic.

The wanderers

Planets are the easiest deep object to find and the hardest to get bored of. They move. Vantage plots each one's path across your sky for tonight.

Tonight's lineup

mars      +0.9 mag · high in the south-west
jupiter   -2.1 mag · rising after midnight
saturn    +0.8 mag · early evening, west
venus     -3.9 mag · just before dawn

What to look for

Jupiter's four moons are visible in any small scope. Saturn's rings are tilted open this year. Mars shows its polar cap under good seeing.