Venus, Saturn and Mercury, perform an intricate "dance" in the eastern sky at the first light of dawn during the first half of October. Venus, overwhelmingly the brightest of the three, hovers conspicuously a moderate angle above the horizon the entire time. Mercury, barely over the horizon, stays below Venus, though the distance between the two narrows a bit. Saturn, the dimmest of the three, barely pokes over the horizon on October 1, but passes Venus on October 13 and keeps climbing after that. The waning crescent moon joins the trio of planets on the mornings of October 15 and October 16.
Venus, Saturn and Mercury, perform an intricate "dance" in the eastern sky at the first light of dawn during the first half of October. Venus, overwhelmingly the brightest of the three, hovers conspicuously a moderate angle above the horizon the entire time. Mercury, barely over the horizon, stays below Venus, though the distance between the two narrows a bit. Saturn, the dimmest of the three, barely pokes over the horizon on October 1, but passes Venus on October 13 and keeps climbing after that. The waning crescent moon joins the trio of planets on the mornings of October 15 and October 16.