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Oct. 9 \u2013 Oct. 15<\/strong><\/p>\n Monday, Oct. 9<\/strong> \u2013 The current Evening \u201cStar,\u201d Jupiter, is rising in the east-northeast about 7:30 p.m. while Saturn is already located in the southeastern sky. By 9:30 p.m., Jupiter has moved to the eastern sky while Saturn is now high in the south.<\/p>\n Tuesday, Oct. 10<\/strong> \u2013 Celestial trio of the planet Venus, the star Regulus, and the thinning, waning lunar crescent all appear close in the eastern predawn sky this morning. Venus is the current Morning \u201cStar.\u201d<\/p>\n Wednesday, Oct. 11<\/strong> \u2013 Constellation of Orion the Hunter is perched high in the south by 5:30 a.m.<\/p>\n Thursday, Oct. 12<\/strong> \u2013 Summer Triangle stars \u2013 Vega, Deneb, Altair \u2013 high in the south by 8 p.m. Deneb almost overhead.<\/p>\n Friday, Oct. 13<\/strong> \u2013 Triskaidekaphobia Day. Venus appears below Regulus. Look to the eastern sky between 4 and 6 a.m. One day before the new moon.<\/p>\n Saturday, Oct. 14<\/strong> \u2013 Partial Eclipse of the Sun. Locally, the partial solar eclipse begins at 12:10 p.m., reaches maximum at 1:20 p.m. and ends at 2:31 p.m. At maximum, about 20% of the sun will be covered (solar obscuration). You will need safe solar eclipse glasses to view the sun for the duration of this celestial event. (Editor’s note: contact Assistant Professor Richard Monda at r.monda@hvee.edu<\/a> to purchase solar eclipse glasses for a nominal fee.)<\/p>\n Sunday, Oct. 15<\/strong> \u2013 Saturn at its highest over the south point at 9:30 p.m. and against the stars of Aquarius. At that time, Jupiter will be in the east in Aries and will be very bright.<\/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, 09 Oct 2023 11:50:18 +0000 by\u00a0r.monda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eyes on the Sky Update Oct. 9 \u2013 Oct. 15 Monday, Oct. 9 \u2013 The current Evening \u201cStar,\u201d Jupiter,…<\/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-20816","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\/20816","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=20816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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