In February, you’ll be able to see Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and Mercury with the naked eye, but you’ll need binoculars or a small telescope to add Neptune and Uranus to the viewing.
“The opposition of Jupiter is not a one-night event by any means,” said John Gianforte, director of the University of New Hampshire Observatory.
Let’s first define what opposition is. In the technical sense, opposition is the date at which the ellipt... [4008 chars]