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A pale Moon rising over still water in a soft pink dusk

Saturday 19 Sep

Moon in Capricorn: Tonight's Sky

Waxing Gibbous Moon in Capricorn, 61% lit tonight. Four planets retrograde.

Photo: Burst

The computed sky for 19 Sep: what is visible tonight from four US cities, today’s sign spotlight, and every exact moment in US time zones.

Sign spotlight

Scorpio: where today’s planets fall

House from ScorpioSignPlanets there today
1st: self, body, how you come acrossScorpioVenus 5°13′
3rd: messages, siblings, short tripsCapricornMoon 5°29′
4th: home, familyAquariusPluto 3°14′ (Rx)
6th: daily work, healthAriesSaturn 12°27′ (Rx), Neptune 3°11′ (Rx)
8th: shared money, what stays privateGeminiUranus 5°40′ (Rx)
9th: study, travel, beliefCancerMars 24°58′
10th: career, public standingLeoJupiter 17°29′
11th: friends, long-range hopesVirgoSun 26°44′
12th: rest, the inner worldLibraMercury 14°28′
Whole-sign houses counted from Scorpio, positions at 12:00 ET.

Tonight’s sky

What is up after dark

Tonight, look for

The Moon first, in the south-southwest. Then Saturn: the steady dot in the east.

After dark

  • Moon61% lit, 19° up, south-southwest
  • Saturn15° up, east

Before dawn

  • Mars46° up before dawn
  • Jupiter26° up before dawn

Times in your city

Fully dark
8:30 p.m.
Moonrise
3:20 p.m.
Sunset
6:58 p.m.
More times
Saturn rises
7:39 p.m.
Mars rises
1:25 a.m.
Jupiter rises
3:19 a.m.
Moonset
12:07 a.m.
Sunrise
6:42 a.m.

Moonset and rises after midnight fall on the next morning.

Local time in each city. “Fully dark” is the end of astronomical twilight.

Come back tomorrow at midnight ET.

Next in the sky: Mercury sextile Jupiter Mon 21 Sep 6:51 p.m. EDT · Sun enters Libra Tue 22 Sep 8:05 p.m. EDT.

Timing

Every exact moment on 19 September

Void-of-course Moon: 4:44 p.m.–12:55 a.m. EDT.

  1. Moon at apogee (404,261 km) (prior evening)28°56′ Sagittarius
  2. Moon enters Capricorn0°00′ Capricorn
  3. Moon square Neptune3°11′ Capricorn / Aries
  4. Moon sextile Venus5°13′ Capricorn / Scorpio