Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Wednesday, October 20th.  The sun will rise at 8:04.  It’ll be up for 10 hours and 45 minutes, setting at 6:49.   The moon, 2 days before full, will set at 6:44 tomorrow morning.

Lets take a look at the bright planets for this week. Venus and Mars are very low and lost in the evening twilight.  Venus has a bit more than a week to be officially in the evening sky before it passes between the earth and the sun.  It will then enter the morning sky where it appear quite suddenly a couple of weeks later.  The planet Jupiter is up at sunset appearing in the southeastern sky in the early evening.  It will move due south at 11:28 p.m..  It is the brightest starlight object in the sky.  It’s located in Pisces this year and will set at 5:16 a.m.  Comet Hartley 2 may be just visible in binoculars as a fuzzy spot in the pentagonal constellation of Auriga, below and right of the bright star Capella in the northeastern sky.