The computed sky for 1 Oct: what is visible tonight from four US cities, today’s sign spotlight, and every exact moment in US time zones.
Sign spotlight
Capricorn: where today’s planets fall
| House from Capricorn | Sign | Planets there today |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd: money, belongings | Aquarius | Pluto 3°07′ (Rx) |
| 4th: home, family | Aries | Saturn 11°32′ (Rx), Neptune 2°51′ (Rx) |
| 6th: daily work, health | Gemini | Moon 13°26′, Uranus 5°31′ (Rx) |
| 8th: shared money, what stays private | Leo | Mars 2°05′, Jupiter 19°43′ |
| 10th: career, public standing | Libra | Sun 8°30′ |
| 11th: friends, long-range hopes | Scorpio | Mercury 1°33′, Venus 8°26′ |
Tonight’s sky
What is up after dark
Tonight, look for
Saturn first: the steady dot in the east-southeast.
After dark
- Saturn24° up, east-southeast
Before dawn
- Mars51° up before dawn
- Jupiter35° up before dawn
Times in your city
- Fully dark
- 8:09 p.m.
- Moonrise
- 9:37 p.m.
- Sunset
- 6:38 p.m.
More times
- Saturn rises
- 6:50 p.m.
- Mars rises
- 1:13 a.m.
- Jupiter rises
- 2:44 a.m.
- Moonset
- 12:47 p.m.
- Sunrise
- 6:54 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 square Mars Fri 2 Oct 5:14 a.m. EDT · Mercury square Pluto Fri 2 Oct 4:43 p.m. EDT.
Timing
Every exact moment on 1 October
Void-of-course Moon: 10:42 p.m.–3:54 p.m. EDT.
- Moon sextile Neptune (prior evening)2°52′ Gemini / Aries
- Moon trine Pluto (prior evening)3°07′ Gemini / Aquarius
- Moon conjunction Uranus (prior evening)5°31′ Gemini
- Sun trine Moon8°08′ Libra / Gemini
- Moon sextile Saturn11°32′ Gemini / Aries
- Moon at perigee (369,301 km)16°16′ Gemini
- Moon sextile Jupiter19°47′ Gemini / Leo