Guess what guys

Time watching the night sky is time well spent.

Not a comet...actually a meteor.

 

I, myself, have recently been watching the sky in awe, I have rediscovered a love of looking at the night sky that I developed as a child. It was the thrill of seeing a particularly bright point in the sky and suspecting that it wasn't a star before finding out that it was Mars that did it for me though.

 

You can see Mars comfortably with the naked eye. Mars isn't too far from the Pleiades at the moment if that helps.

 

A few weeks visibilty of mars was excelent just to the left of the moon however with all the hype about it being so large and close to earth lately i thought it would be brighter than i actually saw but it still was awesome to look at
its nice to go to the cottage and get awya from the city lights were u can lookup in the night sky and see shooting stars and satellites every few minutes

 

Stars appear to twinkle because the starlight reaching your eye has been buffeted around (refracted) by the Earth's turbulent atmosphere. This effect is more pronounced when the star is near the horizon (more atmosphere to go through compared to a star directly overhead).

Perhaps you mean "star cluster" rather than "constellation"? Yes, under typical urban/suburban skies (where light pollution from city lights drowns out many of the fainter views in the night sky) you won't see other similar clusters immediately around the Pleiades.

Mars is a particularly bright orange color over these few weeks (rising in the east around 9 pm and high in the eastern sky by midnight).