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Oct. 2 \u2013 Oct. 8<\/strong><\/p>\n Monday, Oct. 2<\/strong> \u2013 Waning gibbous moon rises over the east-northeastern horizon about 8:20 p.m., approximately 85% of the moon facing the earth is illuminated. The moon will be east of Jupiter and adjacent to the Pleiades star cluster.<\/p>\n Tuesday, Oct. 3<\/strong> \u2013 Venus blazes in the eastern predawn sky while the moon is above Jupiter in the west. Also, Mercury is very low above the eastern horizon. Look before 6:30 a.m. for these sky objects.<\/p>\n Wednesday, Oct. 4<\/strong> \u2013 Around 8 p.m., Saturn is above the southeastern horizon while Jupiter is just rising over the east-northeastern horizon.<\/p>\n Thursday, Oct. 5<\/strong> \u2013 Venus is closing in on the star Regulus, the brightest star of Leo. Watch over the next few days as the approach takes place and the (apparent angular) distance between the two decreases. The pair is above the eastern horizon after 3:30 a.m. and visible until about a half hour before sunrise.<\/p>\n Friday, Oct. 6<\/strong> \u2013 Last quarter moon occurs at 9:48 a.m. against the stars of Gemini. The moon will be in the western sky at that time.<\/p>\n Saturday, Oct. 7<\/strong> \u2013 One week until a Partial Eclipse of the Sun<\/strong>. At maximum, about 20% of the sun will be covered (solar obscuration). The partial solar eclipse starts at 12:10 p.m., reaches maximum at 1:20 p.m. and ends at 2:31 p.m. You will need safe solar eclipse glasses to view the sun for the duration of this celestial event<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Sunday, Oct, 8<\/strong> \u2013 Venus appears at its closest to Regulus.\u00a0 Look to the eastern sky between 4 and 6:30 a.m.<\/p>\n Editor’s Note<\/em>: Richard Monda, assistant professor of Physics and Astronomy in the Biology, Chemistry and Physics Department, publishes updates to his HVCC Eyes on the Sky video series each week in the Campus Chronicle.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 02 Oct 2023 11:50:16 +0000 by\u00a0r.monda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eyes on the Sky Update Oct. 2 \u2013 Oct. 8 Monday, Oct. 2 \u2013 Waning gibbous moon rises over…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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