This month’s sky features two comets, three bright planets and a meteor shower. Saturn is easy to spot in the southeastern sky below the giant Square of Pegasus asterism as soon as it gets dark. Jupiter in Gemini is primarily a morning planet but nudging toward the evening hours. On October 1 it rises in the northeastern sky around midnight local time. By month’s end the brilliant gas giant rises around 10:30 p.m.

Venus is also still with us but dropping lower as the month progresses. Watch for this most radiant planet low in the eastern sky in Leo and then Virgo between 5:30 and 6:30 a.m.

Two binocular comets — Comet Lemmon (named for the Mt. Lemmon sky survey in Arizona) and Comet SWAN — grace the skies. The former will likely be bright enough to see as a small fuzzball with the naked

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