The Moon And Mars Tonight

Friday october 2 all night bright moon meets mars image credit.

The moon and mars tonight.

However stargazers will be treated to another showing as mars. Mars and the moon will align in the sky tonight. You can catch the waning gibbous moon and mars starting around 11 p m. Use it to locate a planet the moon or the sun and track their movements across the sky.

The conjunction of mars and the moon this weekend will whet your appetite for the perseids meteor shower next week. Saturday night according to the cincinnati observatory s dean. Mars and the moon come together tonight after they rise in the east at 10 15pm. The map also shows the phases of the moon and all solar and lunar eclipses.

These next several nights september 4 5 and 6 2020 let the moon introduce you to the red planet mars. The red planet is making its closest approach to earth and when the lunar orb rises the two will appear to hang. Mars and the moon are set to put on a show tonight that it is out of this world. From most places worldwide the moon will swing a touch south of mars on.

On october 1 and 2 the harvest moon and mars will be close. The moon itself is 0 5 degrees across so you would think that the gap between mars and the moon s upper limb would appear large enough to accommodate a moon sized object. Next month in october 2020 mars will supplant jupiter as the sky s 4th brightest. They will be less the 1 degree apart.

Stargazers have a two for one sightseeing opportunity tonight. Check them out and share any pics you get. The corn moon as september s full moon is known rose in the early hours of this morning and will continue appear to full tonight. The moon looks larger on the chart than in the real sky.

Local time on friday october 2 the gibbous waning.