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Saturday 10 Oct · New Moon

New Moon at 17°22′ Libra

New Moon at 11:50 a.m. EDT. New Moon Moon in Libra, 0% lit tonight. Five planets retrograde.

Photo: Burst

The computed sky for 10 Oct: what is visible tonight from four US cities, today’s sign spotlight, and every exact moment in US time zones.

Sign spotlight

Libra: where today’s planets fall

House from LibraSignPlanets there today
1st: self, body, how you come acrossLibraSun 17°22′, Moon 17°27′
2nd: money, belongingsScorpioMercury 12°19′, Venus 7°25′ (Rx)
5th: romance, creativity, childrenAquariusPluto 3°05′ (Rx)
7th: partnershipAriesSaturn 10°49′ (Rx), Neptune 2°36′ (Rx)
9th: study, travel, beliefGeminiUranus 5°20′ (Rx)
11th: friends, long-range hopesLeoMars 7°13′, Jupiter 21°15′
Whole-sign houses counted from Libra, 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

  • Saturn30° up, east-southeast

Before dawn

  • Mars54° up before dawn
  • Jupiter42° up before dawn

Times in your city

Fully dark
7:54 p.m.
Moonrise
7:01 a.m.
Sunset
6:23 p.m.
More times
Saturn rises
6:13 p.m.
Mars rises
1:03 a.m.
Jupiter rises
2:16 a.m.
Moonset
6:06 p.m.
Sunrise
7:03 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 greatest evening elongation (25.2°) Mon 12 Oct 6:35 a.m. EDT · Sun sextile Jupiter Thu 15 Oct 4:22 a.m. EDT.

Timing

Every exact moment on 10 October

Void-of-course Moon: 7:07 p.m.–11:21 a.m. EDT.

  1. Moon opposition Saturn (prior evening)10°52′ Libra / Aries
  2. New Moon17°22′ Libra
  3. Venus square Mars7°21′ Scorpio / Leo
  4. Moon sextile Jupiter21°18′ Libra / Leo