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The moon passes the morning planets during late February and early March 2019. Step outside at about 1 hour before sunrise. Check your local sunrise time.
Here are the highlights for these mornings:
- February 27: One hour before sunrise, three bright planets span about 36° from east-southeast to south-southeast. Brilliant Morning Star Venus is low in the east-southeast. Find a clear horizon to see it. Saturn, distinctly dimmer is 10° to the upper right of Venus. Venus passed Saturn just five days ago. Bright Jupiter is nearly 26° to the upper right of Saturn. The waning crescent moon (22.6d, 40%) is 2° to the upper right of Jupiter.
- February 28: This morning Venus, Saturn, crescent moon (23.6d, 30%), Jupiter, and Antares are lined up across the sky from east-southeast to south-southeast.. The gaps to the solar system objects: Venus – Saturn, 11°; Saturn – Moon, 15°; Moon – Jupiter, 11°.
- March 1: Jupiter rises 4.5 hours before sunrise followed by the waning crescent moon (24.9 days old, 22% illuminated) about 90 minutes later. Saturn follows the moon less than 20 minutes later. Venus rises about 45 minutes after Saturn. At 1 hour before sunrise, the three planets, with the moon 3° to the upper right of Saturn, span 38° from the east-southeast to south-southeast.
- March 2: This morning is another classic Venus – moon (25.8d, 15%) pairing, with the crescent 4.3° to the right of the brilliant Morning Star, that is nearly 9° up in the east-southeast 1 hour before sunrise. Look for Earthshine, reflected sunlight from Earth gently illuminates the night portion of the moon. Jupiter is 39° to the upper right of Venus and Saturn is 13° to the upper right of Venus.
- March 3: At an hour before sunrise, the crescent moon (26.7d, 9%), about 4° up in the east-southeast, is about 7° to the lower left of Venus.
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