Sky events for February 2013
Feb. 1 – Sunrise at 7:16 a.m. and sunset at 5:08 p.m.; moon 0.3 degrees below Spica at 10 p.m.
Feb. 3 – Last-quarter moon just below Saturn at dawn.
Feb. 8 – Mercury and Mars close and low at dusk.
Feb. 10 – New moon always rises/sets with the sun.
Feb. 11 – Young moon above Mercury at dusk.
Feb. 16 – Mercury highest at dusk, best for year.
Feb. 17 – First-quarter moon four degrees west of Jupiter.
Feb. 19 – Saturn begins retrograde motion.
Feb. 24 – Moon five degrees below Regulus in Leo.
Feb. 25 – Full moon always rises/sets as sun sets/rises.
Feb. 28 – Moon a half degree below Spica at midnight.
Feb. 30 – Sunrise at 6:37 a.m. and sunset at 5:45 p.m.
Where are the visible planets in February?
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