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progree

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Mon Oct 2, 2023, 01:30 AM Oct 2023

The moon and Jupiter are still quite close to each other (as seen from earth) [View all]

See Jupiter meet up with a bright moon in the night sky tonight
By Joe Rao, Space.com, published 10/1/23

The moon and Jupiter will meet up in the night sky on Oct. 1, offering a pairing of the two brightest objects in the night sky.

... The moon, now a waning gibbous phase, will be poised near a brilliant silvery non-twinkling "star." That object is not a star, however, but the largest planet in our solar system: Jupiter.

Jupiter comes up over the eastern horizon just before 9 p.m. local daylight time. It rises about four minutes earlier each night, so by the end of October it will be beaming before the end of evening twilight. By then, the planet will be so bright – it will be essentially at its peak brilliance for 2023 – that it's easy to see before the sky gets fully dark.


Emphasis added.

As for Jupiter being one of the "two brightest objects in the night sky", wait a while. Venus rises at 330 am.

Beween now and then, Orion is already rising in the east (central time zone).

My fav for seeing what's in the sky: https://in-the-sky.org/skymap2.php

(get rid of that deep space junk with that checkbox below the sky map and on the left side -- nobody can see any of that stuff unless they live 50 miles from the nearest street lamp, so its just clutter)

I would be lost without this because of the city lights, so few stars and planets are visible, so this helps enormously in finding things and being sure that what I'm seeing is actually what I think I'm seeing.

For those who want to see the H.A. Rey version of the constellations: On the left side below the sky map, there is the default setting: "Simplified Designs". Pull down on its arrow, and choose "H.A. Rey's designs".

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