{"id":661573,"date":"2026-10-30T10:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T10:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/661573\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T10:30:09","slug":"the-sky-today-on-friday-october-30-mars-approaches-leo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/661573\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sky Today on Friday, October 30: Mars approaches Leo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tBack to Article List\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe Red Planet reaches the border of Cancer and Leo; tomorrow it will have crossed the line into the Lion, sharing it with Jupiter.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1140\" height=\"859\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/10302026.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Simulated view of a dark predawn sky, dated October 30, 2026, 90 minutes before sunrise, looking southeast. Mars and Jupiter are labeled close together at upper left of center, with Regulus just below Jupiter. Procyon is labeled at upper right.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMars stands at the border of Cancer and Leo the morning of the 30th, preparing to join bright Jupiter in the latter by tomorrow. Together with Regulus, the three points of light form a line in the early-morning sky. Credit: Stellarium\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/the-sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-from-october-23-to-30-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sky This Week<\/a>\u00a0column.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">October 29: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/observing\/the-sky-today-thursday-october-29-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open cluster Collinder 463<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Magnitude 0.8 Mars, currently tracking eastward through the sky, now stands at the border of Cancer and Leo. It is still within the bounds of the Crab this morning, roughly 60\u00b0 high in the southeast and just over 6\u00b0 to the upper right of brighter Jupiter in Leo, about 90 minutes before sunrise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To Jupiter\u2019s east (lower left) is magnitude 1.4 Regulus, the brightest star in the Lion, which also serves as the great cat\u2019s heart. Together with Jupiter and Mars, the three form a line slashing upward in the predawn sky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Far to the planetary pair\u2019s upper right is Procyon, the bright nose of Canis Minor, the Little Dog. And to that star\u2019s far lower right is even brighter Sirius, the nose of Canis Major, the Big Dog \u2014 the brightest star in the sky. However, Jupiter (at magnitude \u20132.0) currently outshines Sirius\u2019 magnitude \u20131.4 glow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mars will continue to move east, joining Jupiter in Leo by tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunrise: 7:27 A.M.<br \/>Sunset: 6:00 P.M.<br \/>Moonrise: 9:53 P.M.<br \/>Moonset: 12:45 P.M.<br \/>Moon Phase: Waning gibbous (69%)<br \/>*Times for sunrise, sunset, moonrise, and moonset are given in local time from 40\u00b0 N 90\u00b0 W. The Moon\u2019s illumination is given at 10 P.M. local time from the same location.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alison Klesman\u00a0is senior editor of\u00a0Astronomy\u00a0magazine. She holds a Ph.D. in astronomy and has studied a variety of topics, from minor planets to supermassive black holes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back to Article List The Red Planet reaches the border of Cancer and Leo; tomorrow it will have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[85,46,2928,141,43844],"class_list":["post-661573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-observing","tag-science","tag-sky-tonight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}