Simple guide.
Look west after sunset--the two bright objects you see are not stars. The lower, brighter one is Venus, and the upper less brighter one is Jupiter.
At around 12 midnight, the reddish object almost directly overhead is Mars.
At around 5 am, Saturn is nearly directly overhead, but you won't notice it--look for a yellowish starlike object which does not twinkle--that's Saturn.
Most of the time these planets are always in the night sky because they are the visible planets (you don't need a telescope to see them).
Now probably ang big pangutana sa uban is--what does it mean? Does it mean the end of the world acheche ek ek? FACT: "alignments" (the proper term is
planetary grouping) constantly happen, and the only meaning you can get out of it is that the planets revolve around the sun, so naturally, naa dyud moments nga magka-timing lang sila'g tapok.
Read my blog entry on a 4-planet grouping that occurred last year and I took photos of it in Cebu City:
https://www.istorya.net/forums/blogs/...y-13-2011.html
And read my blog entry on the significance or insignificance of these occurrences here:
https://www.istorya.net/forums/blogs/...-of-venus.html
People like to give "meaning" to everything they cannot understand, or things they fear--science tries to erase the fear by making people understand.
-RODION