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Mars passes 1.2 degrees below Saturn this morning. Watch Mars move away from Saturn during the next several days. Saturn begins to retrograde on April 17, heading toward its opposition in June.
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On the larger scale, Jupiter is in the southwest. A bright waning gibbous moon (just outside the frame beyond Jupiter) illuminates the scene.
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, 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