The sky this week from Steve Cariddi:
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The Moon is new on Tuesday, the start of a new lunar month. Look for our nearest celestial neighbor a few nights later, low in the west or southwest sky after sunset. Each night it will move farther east (left) and get a bit higher and fatter, but every night this week it will be a crescent (less than half illuminated). On Thursday night, look for the Moon a few degrees to the east (left) of Venus, which is very bright in the western sky after sunset. By the time night falls, you should be able to see Jupiter (in the constellation Libra) shining bright and low in the east. It is just past opposition, so it will be visible most of the night, being at its highest point around midnight. Saturn is also rising around midnight (in Sagittarius), followed by Mars (in Capricorn) about an hour later. The two planets will be at the highest in the south just before dawn.