December 2, 2023: Antares is at solar conjunction today, beginning climb into the morning sky. Venus continues to step eastward, moving away from Spica before daybreak.
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Watching the Sun, Moon and Planets
December 2, 2023: Antares is at solar conjunction today, beginning climb into the morning sky. Venus continues to step eastward, moving away from Spica before daybreak.
Read moreDecember 1, 2023: In the southeastern sky before sunrise, brilliant Venus separates from Spica, Virgo’s brightest star. During evening hours, the moon appears with the Beehive star cluster.
Read moreNovember 30: Venus and Jupiter are at nearly opposite ends of the morning sky as their opposition approaches.
Read moreNovember 29, 2023: Venus passes the star Spica, the brightest in Virgo, in a wide conjunction during morning twilight in the eastern sky.
Read moreNovember 5, 2023: The Last Quarter moon is visible before sunrise. Brilliant Venus shines in the east-southeast before daybreak.
Read moreNovember 4, 2023: Saturn’s retrograde ends near the Aquarius-Capricornus border. The planet resumes a slow eastward trek.
Read moreNovember 3, 2023: Jupiter is in the sky all night as Earth passes between the planet and the sun. Look for it in the eastern sky after sunset and in the west before sunrise.
Read moreNovember 2, 2023: Spica is making its first morning appearance after its solar conjunction last month. Brilliant Venus is to the upper right of the star.
Read moreOctober 12, 2023: Before sunrise, brilliant Venus and Jupiter bracket the Milky Way’s bright Orion region.
Read moreOctober 7, 2023: The morning thick crescent moon is near Pollux before daybreak. Brilliant Venus and Jupiter are visible during morning twilight.
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