The computed sky for 3 Oct: 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 Scorpio | Sign | Planets there today |
|---|---|---|
| 1st: self, body, how you come across | Scorpio | Mercury 4°08′, Venus 8°29′ (stationary) |
| 4th: home, family | Aquarius | Pluto 3°06′ (Rx) |
| 6th: daily work, health | Aries | Saturn 11°22′ (Rx), Neptune 2°47′ (Rx) |
| 8th: shared money, what stays private | Gemini | Uranus 5°29′ (Rx) |
| 9th: study, travel, belief | Cancer | Moon 11°53′ |
| 10th: career, public standing | Leo | Mars 3°14′, Jupiter 20°04′ |
| 12th: rest, the inner world | Libra | Sun 10°28′ |
Tonight’s sky
What is up after dark
Tonight, look for
Saturn first: the steady dot in the east-southeast.
After dark
- Saturn25° up, east-southeast
Before dawn
- Mars52° up before dawn
- Jupiter36° up before dawn
Times in your city
- Fully dark
- 8:05 p.m.
- Moonrise
- 11:53 p.m.
- Sunset
- 6:35 p.m.
More times
- Saturn rises
- 6:42 p.m.
- Mars rises
- 1:11 a.m.
- Jupiter rises
- 2:37 a.m.
- Moonset
- 2:47 p.m.
- Sunrise
- 6:56 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: Sun opposition Saturn Sun 4 Oct 8:29 a.m. EDT · Mercury conjunction Venus Tue 6 Oct 8:10 p.m. EDT.
Timing
Every exact moment on 3 October
Void-of-course Moon: 11:08 a.m.–6:54 p.m. EDT.
- Mars trine Neptune (prior evening)2°49′ Leo / Aries
- Moon square Neptune (prior evening)2°48′ Cancer / Aries
- Moon trine Mercury (prior evening)3°22′ Cancer / Scorpio
- Venus stations retrograde8°29′ Scorpio
- Moon trine Venus8°29′ Cancer / Scorpio
- Mars opposition Pluto3°06′ Leo / Aquarius
- Last Quarter10°21′ Cancer
- Moon square Saturn11°22′ Cancer / Aries