Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Wednesday, October 27th.  The sun will rise at 8:13.  It’ll be up for 10 hours and 25 minutes, setting at 6:38.   The moon, 3 days before last quarter, will rise at 9:52 this evening.  |  Lets take a look at the bright planets for this week. Mars is very low and lost in the evening twilight.  Venus will officially enter the morning sky after tomorrow’s passage between the earth and the sun.  It will then appear quite suddenly a couple of weeks later to the amazement of many folks who will report it as being a UFO.  The planet Jupiter is up at sunset appearing in the southeastern sky in the early evening.  It will move due south at 10:54 p.m..  It is the brightest starlight object in the sky.  It’s located in Pisces this year and will set at 4:46 a.m.  Comet Hartley 2 has moved out ahead of the earth being in the morning sky. may be just visible in binoculars as a fuzzy spot at the bottom of the constellation Gemini.