Next weekend, the green comet and Mars will be seen alongside. Find them converging in the sky.

A green comet firing past Earth for the first time since the Ice Age is about to skim right past Mars in the night sky.

The green comet and the red earth will be visible side-by- side across the Northern Hemisphere on the nights of February 10 and 11. The moon will stay below the horizon for the early evening hours, making ideal dark skies. All that could make it much easier to spot the cosmic caller, a ball of frozen gas and dust called Comet C/ 2022 E3( ZTF), or Comet ZTF for short. Mars stands out among the stars because it glows bright and orange — fluently visible to the naked eye.

Once you spot Mars, chancing the green cosmic snowball should be a breath if it's bright enough. Then is what you need to know to treat yourself to a rare, various cosmic sight coming weekend. Mars rises high in the evening sky coming weekend, and it should be easy to see it beside the comet well before bedtime.

In the first many hours after evening, get as far from megacity lights as you can (safely and comfortably). Bring binoculars at a minimal — the comet may not be visible to the unaided eye. Comet brilliance is delicate to prognosticate. Although it's been clear enough for binoculars so far, it's possible that a telescope will be necessary to see Comet ZTF by the time it lines up with Mars.

To detect the cosmic couple, face west just after evening and look for an orange-red point of light just to the right of the Orion constellation. That is Mars, according toEarthSky.com. Also point your binoculars at it and look for the comet. It should be just above Mars." Do not look for a speck," Dan Bartlett, a night-sky shooter and comet sucker, told Insider in a dispatch." Look for a fuzzy, smirch, desultorily addict-shaped." Do not stay until the late evening, when the moon rises and lightens the sky.

CheckTimeandDate.com to see when the moon will rise in your area. The comet is fading from view, after it passed its closest point to Earth on February 2. But there is still time to see it.However, The Virtual Telescope Project plans to broadcast telescope compliance of the event online, If you want to see the Mars-comet pairing from the comfort of your home.