Hi Cindy,
In a message to Roger Nelson you wrote:

 CH>  Isn't it Jupiter that we are seeing when we see a 'bright orb' near
 CH> the moon? It's not Venus.. this would be later after Venus sets.

that would depend on what you call "near"... at the time i'm
writing this, the moon is still below my horizon and Jupiter is about 20
degrees up to the South-East (that's 135 degrees on the compass)... Pluto
is about 34 degrees high at roughly 150 degrees on the compass...

then, on the other side of the sky, mars is only 3 degrees up at 286 on the
compass and saturn is right there near it 7 degrees high at 280 degrees on
the compass...

oh yeah, it is 11:34PM Eastern time... if you're in FLA, then you should be
pretty close in sightings to me ;)

Bye bye!
  mark

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