It can locate 43 constellations, any first-magnitude stars and all visible planets in seconds.

Finally, on the icy edges of the horizon shimmered Ninib, our pale, yellow planet Saturn, the farthest planet visible to the naked eye.

A hatful of constellations, learned when I was ten; those and the visible planets and a few stars, friends today as though not a night had passed since we met.

Although this is an astronomically loaded month, with all the planets visible, only 10 people had showed up for Monday's class.

She saw the Earth as it looked from the Basilica, the curve of the planet plainly visible at the horizons.

Jupiter has several coordinate systems because its cloud tops-the only part of the planet visible from space-rotate at different rates depending on latitude.

But it was swift enough to bring two visible planets of the united and synchronous worlds quickly into close view.

Indian astronomy and astrology (Jyotiṣa) recognises seven visible planets (including the sun and moon) and two additional invisible planets.

The first target was a large city down there on the side of the planet most visible to scan, a city by a big bay.

In ancient times, only the Sun and Moon, a few hundred stars and the most easily visible planets had names.