1. The evening sky continues to puzzle me. The city lights hides almost everything which might otherwise quickly have answered my questions.

It began with the easily identified Venus, but then I went astray when I thought the planet not far away was Mars. Now I am not so sure about that anymore.

Today is March 17 AD 2023 and Cartes du Ciel has given me this overview:

Here - today - Mars is between the Butting Horn of the Bull and the Foot of Castor (down in the Milky Way river), i.e. precisely in the ancient center of attention, with the House of Auriga above and the Arms of Orion below.

Like the other planets Mars should ideally follow the ecliptic. However, we can see, Venus is not close to Mars but far away at Pisces together with Jupiter.

For some reason they have changed the sign for Uranus, today located above the Head of Cetus.