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Jeffrey L. Hunt is an educational technologist living in suburban Chicago. When he's not learning about and implementing technology in classes, he's running or looking at the stars.
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2022, July 8: Morning Planet Stretch, Nipped Moon
July 8, 2022: The four bright morning planets – Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn – stretch across the morning sky before daybreak. After sundown, the bright gibbous moon is near the scorpion’s pincers.
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2022, July 7: Four Planets Before Daybreak, Spiked Moon
July 7, 2022: Four bright planets – Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn – are lined up in the sky before daybreak. After sunset, the gibbous moon is near Spica.
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2022, July 6: Four Morning Planets, Evening Half Moon
July 6, 2022: Four bright morning planets, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, are visible before daybreak. After sunset, the First Quarter Moon is in the southwest with Virgo.
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2022, July 5: Bullish Venus, Virgo Moon
July 5, 2022: Venus, one of the four morning planets with Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, is visible with the stars of Taurus. During the evening, the thick crescent moon is with Virgo.
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2022, July 4: Earth at Aphelion, Leo Moon
July 4, 2022: Earth is at aphelion today. The four morning planets are visible before sunrise. The waxing crescent moon is in the west after sunset.
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2022, July 3: Today’s Planet Visibility Forecast, Evening Eagle
July 3, 2022: Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn continue to parade in the eastern and southern sky before sunrise. Aquila and Altair are in the east-southeast when evening twilight ends.
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2022, July 2: Morning Star, Aldebaran, Evening Leo Moon
July 2, 2022: The four bright morning planets – Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn – continue to parade through the morning. After sunset, the crescent moon is near the Sickle of Leo.
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2022, July 1: Venus – Aldebaran Conjunction, Evening Crescent Moon
July 1, 2022: This morning Venus passes Aldebaran in the east-northeast before sunrise. In the evening, the thin crescent moon approaches the Sickle of Leo.
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2022, May 30-31: Sky Watcher’s Alert!
May 30-31, 2022: A fragmented comet may put on a display in the southwestern sky around midnight on this evening. Earth may encounter debris from a comet informally known as SW3.
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2022, June 30: Planet Racetrack, Green Star
June 30, 2022: The gap between the four morning planets continues to widen. In the evening sky a green star may lie among the stars of Scorpius that is in the south as twilight ends.