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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