{"id":665515,"date":"2026-11-03T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/665515\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T10:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T10:30:10","slug":"the-sky-today-on-tuesday-november-3-the-moon-passes-regulus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/665515\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sky Today on Tuesday, November 3: The Moon passes Regulus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tBack to Article List\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow deeper in Leo, our satellite skims close to the bright star Regulus, standing east of Jupiter and Mars in the morning sky. \t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1308\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/11032026.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Simulated view of a dark predawn sky, dated November 3, 2026, 5 A.M., looking southeast. Mars and Jupiter are labeled near the top center, with Jupiter below Mars. A thin crescent Moon sits just below Regulus at center, and scattered fainter stars fill the rest of the frame.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tOur satellite has skimmed east across the sky over the past few days, now sitting just south of the luminary Regulus in Leo the Lion. Credit: Stellarium\/USGS\/Celestia\/Clementine\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-30-to-november-6-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sky This Week<\/a>\u00a0column.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">November 2: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/observing\/the-sky-today-monday-november-2-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Moon passes Jupiter and Mars<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">The Moon now passes 0.8\u00b0 south of the bright star Regulus in Leo at 4 A.M. EST. Some regions of the world will see our satellite pass in front of Regulus in an occultation, but again, the event is not visible from North America.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pair rises together shortly after midnight on the 2nd, following Jupiter and Mars by roughly an hour. By 5 A.M. local time on the 3rd, the Moon-star pair is nearly 50\u00b0 high in the southeast. Despite its brightness (it is ranked as the 21st brightest star in the sky), magnitude 1.4 Regulus will be the faintest object in this region, as magnitude 0.8 Mars and magnitude \u20132.0 Jupiter to its west (upper right) far outshine it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The waning Moon has shrunk from roughly 43% lit yesterday morning to 33% lit today. It is just under a week from New phase, which occurs on the 9th. Between now and then, the phase will continue to diminish and the Moon will rise later in the morning each day, until it travels across the sky in tandem with the Sun when it is New.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Venus passes 2\u00b0 south of Spica at 8 A.M. EST this morning \u2014 they\u2019ll be in the same configuration tomorrow morning, so keep reading below for details on how to observe them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunrise: 6:31 A.M.<br \/>Sunset: 4:55 P.M.<br \/>Moonrise: 12:34 A.M.<br \/>Moonset: 2:07 P.M.<br \/>Moon Phase: Waning crescent (26%)<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\">Venus sits 2\u00b0 south of Virgo\u2019s brightest star, Spica, in the early-morning sky. The pair is joined by a lovely crescent Moon high above them in Leo, creating a gorgeous sight that early risers won\u2019t want to miss.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1456\" height=\"917\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" data-wp-on--pointerenter=\"actions.preloadImageWithDelay\" data-wp-on--pointerleave=\"actions.cancelPreload\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/11042026.png\" alt=\"Simulated view of a predawn sky fading from dark purple at the top to a warm orange glow over a dark horizon with distant trees, dated November 4, 2026, 30 minutes before sunrise, looking east. Venus glows low near the horizon with Spica labeled just above and to its left. Arcturus is labeled at left, and a thin crescent Moon is labeled at upper right.\" class=\"wp-image-178094\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\t\tCatch the waning Moon high above a close conjunction of Venus and Spica the morning of November 4. The bright star Arcturus in Bo\u00f6tes should also remain visible as twilight brightens. Credit: Stellarium\/USGS\/Celestia\/Clementine<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By 6 A.M. local time (roughly half an hour before sunrise), the sky is growing bright and Venus and Spica are about 8\u00b0 high in the east. Venus, at magnitude \u20134.4, far outshines the magnitude 1.0 star, which sits just to the planet\u2019s upper left. A waning crescent Moon, just over 20% lit, hangs high above the pair, to their upper right. Through a telescope, Venus\u2019 large, 58\u201d-wide disk is also a crescent, now 5% lit. In the coming days, Venus\u2019 phase will start to grow as its diameter slowly shrinks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also glance to Venus and Spica\u2019s upper left, where you\u2019ll spot magnitude \u20130.1 Arcturus, the brightest star in Bo\u00f6tes the Herdsman, which borders Virgo to the north.<\/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 Now deeper in Leo, our satellite skims close to the bright star Regulus, standing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[85,46,2928,141,43844],"class_list":["post-665515","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\/665515","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=665515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}