by Robert Wilkinson
We’re having a perfect geometric light show in the early night sky! We can now see the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn all shining brightly across a 90 degree span.
If you stand looking south in the early evening after dark, you’ll see a very bright Mars in the upper eastern sky, and Jupiter and Saturn near each other in the upper western sky in a close square. Jupiter is the brighter of the two stars which are close together.
This week we have Moon in Pisces, Aries, and Taurus, so it too is part of our show. It makes a sextile to Jupiter and Saturn the evening of Oct 26, so imagine from the Moon to Jupiter equaling 1/3 of the sky, and Mars to Jupiter equaling half of the sky. It’s literally showing us both a sextile and a square!
On Oct 28-29 the Moon in Aries will appear on both sides of Mars in the upper eastern sky. As the Moon squares Jupiter the early evening of Oct 29, the Moon will appear just to the left of a red shining Mars and give us another exact picture of what 90 degrees looks like! This is an amazing concentration of planets spread across 1/2 of the sky with space on both horizons. Enjoy!
Copyright © 2020 Robert Wilkinson
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