{"id":920257,"date":"2026-10-04T12:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T12:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/920257\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T12:10:13","slug":"tomorrow-morning-the-moon-meets-mars-then-jupiter-its-going-to-be-spectacular-heres-how-to-see-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/920257\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow morning the Moon meets Mars, then Jupiter. It’s going to be spectacular. Here’s how to see it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you noticed two bright stars in the east before dawn? Those two ‘stars’ are actually the planets Mars and Jupiter.<\/p>\n

And tomorrow morning, Sunday 5 October 2026, the crescent Moon will be right next to Mars.<\/p>\n

If you’re based in northern Canada, you’ll get to see a lunar occultation of Mars, when the Red Planet will disappear behind the Moon.<\/p>\n

Then the following morning, Tuesday 6 October, the Moon will be next to Jupiter.<\/p>\n

\"What'sCredit: Oscar Gutierrez Zozulia \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

Again, from certain parts of the world \u2013\u00a0namely the eastern regions of the US and the western regions of Africa \u2013\u00a0a lunar occultation of Jupiter will be visible.<\/p>\n

This double-whammy of planet-Moon meetings is easy to see in the sky before dawn.<\/p>\n

They’re visible with the naked eye and great for early risers or those with kids who begin the day before sunrise.<\/p>\n

Here we’ll go through where you need to look and when.<\/p>\n

\"MarsMars and Jupiter are a treat for planet-watchers in October 2026. This chart shows how the planets will get closer to one another as the month rolls along. Credit: Pete Lawrence
\nWinter 2026 is planet season<\/p>\n

Mars and Jupiter are spectacular in the morning sky at the moment. And they’re going to get closer together as the month progresses.<\/p>\n

By November, Venus will enter the show, with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune also on display.<\/p>\n

It’s going to be a fantastic few months for planet spotting. And it starts now, with the days getting shorter and the planets re-emerging into the morning and evening sky.<\/p>\n

Get all the info you need over the coming weeks by signing up to our newsletter via the form below.<\/p>\n

Monday 5 October
\n\"MarsMars meets the crescent Moon in the early hours of 5 October 2026. Credit: Stellarium<\/p>\n

Look to the eastern part of the morning sky before the Sun rises and you’ll see the crescent Moon, with Mars just below it.<\/p>\n

The pair will get closer and closer together as dawn approaches, tracking to the southeastern portion of the sky.<\/p>\n

While it’s still dark, look further below the Moon and Mars and you’ll see another bright ‘star’. That’s Jupiter, and it will meet the Moon the following morning.<\/p>\n

Tuesday 6 October
\n\"JupiterJupiter meets a thin crescent Moon in the early hours of 5 October 2026. Credit: Stellarium<\/p>\n

While the location of the planets in the sky doesn’t change from one day to the next \u2013\u00a0to any noticeable degree \u2013\u00a0the Moon does.<\/p>\n

The Moon moves to the east, day after day, so this morning it has a close encounter with the planet Jupiter.<\/p>\n

You’ll perhaps notice the crescent Moon is thinner this morning and rises in the east a little later than it did on Monday.<\/p>\n

Jupiter is right below the Moon and the pair will climb higher across the sky towards the southeast as dawn approaches.<\/p>\n

If you do observe the meetings of the Moon and Mars and Jupiter, share your stories and images with us by emailing contactus@skyatnightmagazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Have you noticed two bright stars in the east before dawn? Those two ‘stars’ are actually the planets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-920257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}