October 12, 2023: Before sunrise, brilliant Venus and Jupiter bracket the Milky Way’s bright Orion region.
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Watching the Sun, Moon and Planets
October 12, 2023: Before sunrise, brilliant Venus and Jupiter bracket the Milky Way’s bright Orion region.
Read moreSeptember 27, 2023: Brilliant Venus begins to approach Regulus for a conjunction October 10th. The waxing gibbous moon nears the Harvey Moon Full moon phase.
Read moreSeptember 24, 2023: Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, and Saturn are visible during nighttime hours. The gibbous moon approaches Saturn after sundown.
Read moreSeptember 23, 2023: The autumnal equinox occurs after midnight this morning. Uranus is visible through a binocular between Jupiter and the Pleiades star cluster.
Read moreSeptember 22, 2023: Mercury is at its best morning view of the year. After sundown, the moon appears above the Teapot’s spout.
Read moreSeptember 21, 2023: Mercury is putting on its best morning display of the year in the eastern sky. The nearly half-full moon is in front of Ophiuchus, above Scorpius.
Read moreSeptember 20, 2023: Brilliant Venus is in the east before sunrise. Mercury is nearing its earliest rising time before the sun. The evening moon is with Scorpius.
Read moreSeptember 18, 2023: Mercury climbs to its closest point to Venus before sunrise. After sunset, the lunar crescent is in the west-southwest near the Scorpion’s claws.
Read moreSeptember 16, 2023: Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn lie along the arc of the solar system during early morning hours. The crescent moon is visible with Mars after sunset.
Read moreSeptember 15, 2023: Brilliant Venus shines from the eastern sky during morning twilight. Use a binocular to find Mercury to the lower left of Regulus.
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