Subj : Stargazing News - October 22nd, 2024
To   : All
From : CJ
Date : Mon Oct 21 2024 06:00:52

Tuesday October 22, 2024

Moon Meets Castor and Pollux and Mars (overnight)

When the waning half-moon clears the rooftops in the eastern sky at around 11
p.m. local time on Tuesday, October 22, it will be forming a pretty triangle
to the right (or celestial southwest) of the up-down pair of bright stars of
Gemini, Castor and Pollux. During the night, the moon's easterly orbital
motion will carry it closer to Pollux, the lower, more easterly star, allowing
all three objects to share the view in binoculars by dawn. The bright red
planet Mars will appear south of the trio after it, too, rises high enough
after midnight.


(Data courtesy of Starry Night)
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