Mars Is Coming Closer and Closer

Mars will have its closest approach to earth for the next 26 months on December 8th what does that mean it means it is really bright I'm sorry to celebrate this when it's on the opposite side of the earth from the Sun opposition technically usually shifted by a few days due to elliptical orbits. You'll be looking in the very early evening over in the East later in the evening higher up it's really bright it's almost as bright as Jupiter now it's reddish because you know it's Mars and it's cool so Jupiter also up higher in the sky over in like the south or just high up in the north if you're in the southern hemisphere and Saturn farther towards the west looking