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Bright Jupiter shines as a Morning Star in the southeast this morning with Mars nearby. In two mornings, Jupiter passes the star for the first of three times (triple conjunction) during this appearance. On Thursday morning they are one-half degree apart. That is the apparent diameter of the moon in the sky. This morning they are 0.75 degree apart.
Mars continues its steady eastward march. It passes Jupiter on January 7. It has moved nearly 12 degrees since it passed Spica. This morning the planets are 8.25 degrees apart.
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, February 10: Mars-Antares Conjunction
- 2018, March 18: Venus, Mercury and the Moon
- 2018, April 2: Saturn-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