Wednesday evening January 20^th the 8-day old first quarter Moon will be about 4^o from the outer planet Uranus and about 6^o from Mars. Over the next couple of days Mars and Uranus will be separated by about 1-2^o as the faster moving Mars passes by Uranus.
   Earlier in the evening outer Planet Neptune and two Dwarf Planets, Eris and Ceres are also above the horizon. However with apparent magnitudes ranging from 8.0 to 19.0 none of these three would be visible without some sort of optical assistance,

   
   
   

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