The moon is associated with the planet Mars, during the first hours before sunrise, at dawn tomorrow, Friday, July 22, 2022.
New moon conjunction
According to the Astronomical Society in Jeddah, the sky of the Arab world monitors the conjunction of the moon, with the planet Mars, where they will be separated by about 3 degrees, in a phenomenon that will be seen with the naked eye.
And the moon and Mars will be observed towards the northeastern horizon after 12:15 after midnight, and because the apparent distance between the moon and Mars is wide, they will not appear together in the field of view of the telescope, but this can be done through binoculars.
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The association explained that Mars revolves around the sun outside the Earth’s orbit and the distance between Earth and Mars changes, sometimes Earth and Mars are on the same side of the solar system and close to each other, and sometimes, as was the case for most of 2021, Mars and Earth were on the same side. Two nearly opposite sides of the Sun from each other, thus Mars appeared dimmer.
The reason for the brightness of Mars
The reason the red planet is sometimes bright is because the Earth takes a year to orbit the sun once, and Mars takes about two years to orbit once.
So the brightness of Mars wanes and increases in the sky about every two years, but that’s not the only cycle of Mars that affects its brightness, there is also a 15-year cycle of bright and faint encounters.