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Jones Blog Mars August 2010 Mars will not appear larger than the
moon - more like this, but smaller ------> Updated August 27,
2010 Bookmark this page for Mars in August 2011 info!  See
bright Venus, faint Mars and Saturn, western horizon, August 27,
2010  Here's a closeup of the three planets tonight  Use these
star charts to locate Mars tonight, August 27th. On August 12,
we saw the trio of planets low in the western sky just at
sunset. Tonight, you'll have to wait until about 10 p.m. to see
the moon rise in the east. That bright object near the moon is
not Mars. It's Jupiter! The moon and Mars images in the upper
right of this page were taken on the same night, using the same
camera and same telescope in 2005. Thanks to CA amateur
astronomer and astrophotographer Paul Keen for making the side
by side comparison. If he were to make the same image comparison
tonight, Mars would be a much smaller object because it's more
than twice as far from Earth