Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

Mars will be well placed for observation, in the constellation Scorpius. It will be visible for much of the night, reaching its highest point in the sky at around midnight local time.

From Baku it will be visible between 20:42 and 04:28. It will become accessible at around 20:42, when it rises 7° above your south-eastern horizon, and then reach its highest point in the sky at 00:37, 28° above your southern horizon. It will become inaccessible at around 04:28 when it sinks to 8° above your south-western horizon.

Mars in coming weeks

Over the weeks following its opposition, Mars will reach its highest point in the sky four minutes earlier each night, gradually receding from the pre-dawn morning sky while remaining visible in the evening sky for a few months.

A chart of the path of Mars across the sky in 2016 can be found here, and a chart of its rising and setting times here.

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