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Jupiter and Mars shine this morning from the east-southeastern sky. Mars is quickly moving eastward toward the slowly lumbering Jupiter. Mars catches and passes Jupiter on January 7. (See this article for more information about this Jupiter-Mars conjunction.) Mars passes Spica on November 30. This morning Mars is 18.2 degrees to the upper right of Jupiter. Watch it slowly approach and pass Jupiter during the next several weeks.
The articles that follow provide details about the planets visible without optical assistance (binoculars or telescope):
- Chart and Image Collection
- 2018: The Morning Sky
- 2018: The Evening Sky
- 2018, January 7: Jupiter-Mars Conjunction
- 2018: Mercury in the Morning Sky
- 2018: Mercury in the Evening Sky
- 2018: Five Planets Visible at Once
- 2018: Venus the Evening Star
- 2017-2019: Mars Observing Year with a Perihelic Opposition, July 27, 2018
- 2018: Mars Perihelic Opposition
- 2017-2018: Jupiter’s Year in the Claws of the Scorpion, A Triple Conjunction
- 2018: Three Planets at Opposition in 79 days
- 2018: Saturn with the Teapot