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Wednesday 7 Oct · Mars sextile Uranus

Mars Sextiles Uranus

Mars sextile Uranus at 6:42 a.m. EDT. Waning Crescent Moon in Virgo, 8% lit tonight. Five planets retrograde.

Photo: Burst

The computed sky for 7 Oct: what is visible tonight from four US cities, today’s sign spotlight, and every exact moment in US time zones.

Sign spotlight

Aries: where today’s planets fall

House from AriesSignPlanets there today
1st: self, body, how you come acrossAriesSaturn 11°03′ (Rx), Neptune 2°41′ (Rx)
3rd: messages, siblings, short tripsGeminiUranus 5°24′ (Rx)
5th: romance, creativity, childrenLeoMars 5°32′, Jupiter 20°45′
6th: daily work, healthVirgoMoon 7°28′
7th: partnershipLibraSun 14°24′
8th: shared money, what stays privateScorpioMercury 9°00′, Venus 8°07′ (Rx)
11th: friends, long-range hopesAquariusPluto 3°05′ (Rx)
Whole-sign houses counted from Aries, positions at 12:00 ET.

Tonight’s sky

What is up after dark

Tonight, look for

Saturn first: the steady dot in the east-southeast.

After dark

  • Saturn28° up, east-southeast

Before dawn

  • Mars53° up before dawn
  • Jupiter39° up before dawn

Times in your city

Fully dark
7:59 p.m.
Moonrise
4:45 a.m.
Sunset
6:28 p.m.
More times
Saturn rises
6:25 p.m.
Mars rises
1:07 a.m.
Jupiter rises
2:25 a.m.
Moonset
4:58 p.m.
Sunrise
7:00 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: New Moon 17°22′ Libra Sat 10 Oct 11:50 a.m. EDT · Venus square Mars Sat 10 Oct 5:31 p.m. EDT.

Timing

Every exact moment on 7 October

Void-of-course Moon: 2:57 p.m.–4:11 a.m. EDT.

  1. Mercury conjunction Venus (prior evening)8°13′ Scorpio
  2. Moon enters Virgo (prior evening)0°00′ Virgo
  3. Mars sextile Uranus5°24′ Leo / Gemini
  4. Moon square Uranus5°24′ Virgo / Gemini
  5. Moon sextile Venus8°07′ Virgo / Scorpio
  6. Moon sextile Mercury9°08′ Virgo / Scorpio