October 14, 2025: Step outside before sunrise to see the crescent moon high in the southeast with Jupiter and Pollux forming a nearly isosceles triangle. Venus glows low in the east while moonlight still hides Uranus and Neptune.
by Jeffrey L. Hunt
Chicago, Illinois: Sunrise, 7:02 a.m. CDT; Sunset, 6:10 p.m. CDT. Times are calculated by the US Naval Observatory’s MICA computer program. Check local sources for sunrise and sunset times.
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Today’s Highlight
This morning the thick crescent moon, 42% illuminated, is high in the southeast during twilight.
Step outside an hour before sunrise to see the lunar orb. The bright starlike body to the upper right is Jupiter, 7.4° away.
Jupiter is the second-brightest starlike object in the sky after Venus, which is low in the east. The Jovian Giant slowly steps eastward in front of Gemini, nearly 7° to Pollux’s lower right. Jupiter passed the star in a wide conjunction on October 10.
The planet rises in the east-northeast around midnight in the eastern regions of time zones, about an hour later farther west. By the beginning of morning twilight, over five hours later, it is high in the southeast.
This morning the moon is 7.5° to Pollux’s lower left. Together, Jupiter, the moon, and Pollux form a nearly isosceles triangle.
The moon’s light continues to wash out Uranus and Neptune. Once the moon’s phase wanes below 30% and it no longer casts obvious shadows on the ground, the search resumes for the most-distant planets of the modern solar system model.
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