Friday October 2^nd if you are a morning type look toward the eastern horizon before sunrise for the inner planet Venus to be about 1^o from the ‘heart’ of Leo the Lion, the star Regulus. Look westward, you can’t miss it, for the the just past full Harvest Moon, the waning gibbous Moon, to be within 9^o from the planet Mars as the two prepare to set a couple of hours after sunrise local time.

   If you can wait, later that day, watch for the Moon and Mars as they rise together a couple of hours after sunset and are separated by about 1^o from one another.

   Keep on eye on the outer planets Jupiter and Saturn. Jupiter being closer to the Sun than Saturn orbits more quickly and so it is steadily catching up with Saturn for a very close conjunction toward the end of December.

   
   
   

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