* Astronomy

Although Jupiter rises about an hour after sunset, on the evening of Oct. 27 Jupiter will be closest to Earth as we swing between it and the sun. On that evening, it will essentially rise as the sun sets and be visible all night.
A near-full moon will brush by Jupiter during the second week of the month. Watch for it above and to the right of the great planet on the evening of Oct. 12. The following night, the moon will shine just a bit to the left of Jupiter.
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Mars will pass through the Beehive star cluster in Cancer the Crab in the 1st October, 2011.

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Jupiter satellite positions for October, 2011.


Daily updates are posted in the Jupiter's satellites thread.

The top of the Winter Hexagon, a star named Capella in the constellation Auriga, already rises by 9 p.m., and all of Orion the Hunter will have cleared the eastern horizon by 11 p.m. By the end of October, all of Orion will be visible by 9 p.m., since the whole sky appears to revolve eastward by two hours every month. That equates to any given star rising four minutes earlier each night.
As the nights are getting colder and longer now, there will be several interesting highlights to look for. Some will happen every October, like the Draconid and Orionid meteor showers, and some events are new, like Comet Garrad and the supernova in the galaxy named M101.
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