Mars will end its retrograde motion and resume its usual eastward motion through the sky.
and the sun with our planet in the middle, on Wednesday, Dec. 7. This is also when the Red Planet began its retrograde motion backwards through the sky. . As our planet orbits its parent star, our perspective from the surface changes due to Earth's motion. This results in the apparent shifts in positions of astronomical objects like Mars, and as the planets move from side-to-side on an annual basis their motion through the sky can appear reversed.
Following the end of Mars' retrograde motion over the coming weeks, Mars will reach its highest point over the horizon four minutes earlier each subsequent night and it will also recede in size as it appears in the night sky. Mars will also reduce in magnitude as 2023 proceeds, dropping from -0.8 to 0.3 by the last week of February and 0.8 by March 23.
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