Shining at magnitude –1.9, Jupiter stands out nicely against the twilight glow. The giant planet rises nearly two hours before the Sun and climbs 8° above the southeastern horizon an hour before sunup. Only 4° - about eight times the Moon’s apparent diameter - separate the two.Īlthough Jupiter passed on the far side of the Sun from Earth just six weeks ago, it has returned to view before dawn. local time and climbs high in the south around 1 a.m. The nearly fully lit Moon appears in the company of 1st-magnitude Regulus tonight. The Moon spends the night near the border between the constellations Cancer the Crab and Leo the Lion. You can find it rising in the east around sunset and peaking high in the south just after midnight. PST this evening), but our satellite looks completely illuminated all night. (The farther south you live, the higher it appears.) If you point binoculars at Sirius, look for the pretty star cluster M41 in the same field of view, just 4° below the star.įull Moon occurs at 2:33 a.m. It then lies about one-third of the way from the horizon to the zenith as seen from mid-northern latitudes. The night sky’s brightest star (at magnitude –1.5) appears some 20° above the southeastern horizon once darkness falls and climbs highest in the south around 9:30 p.m. This is a good week to look for Sirius in the evening sky.
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