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Monday, July 12
brings us a close conjunction of Venus and Mars. But first, the Moon mingles with our neighboring planets, as our satellite passes 3° north of Venus at 5 A.M. EDT and 4° north of Mars at 6 A.M. EDT. The trio isn’t visible then, but you can catch them in the west shortly after sunset. The planetary pair is now 7.3° west of the thin crescent Moon. Venus is magnitude –3.9 and lies due north (to the upper right) of Mars, which glows at magnitude 1.8 — 190x fainter than Venus.
