1 Moon near Saturn at 5h UT (evening sky). Mag. 1.2. Take the opportunity to view Saturn and its almost edge-on rings before it disappears into the evening twilight at the end of the month. • Saturn (Wikipedia) 1 Moon near Venus at 23h UT (evening sky). Mag. −4.6. • Venus (Wikipedia) 2 Moon at

1 New Moon at 6:21 UT. Start of lunation 1261. 3 Mars 2.1° NNW of Beehive Cluster (M44) at 23h UT (morning sky). Mag. −0.6. 5 Moon near Venus at 1h UT (evening sky). Mag. −4.2. • Venus (Wikipedia) 6 Mercury at inferior conjunction with the Sun at 2h UT. The innermost planet passes

1 New Moon at 12:47 UT. Start of lunation 1260. 3 Moon near Mercury at 7h UT (19° from Sun, evening sky). Mag. −0.3. Use the Moon to help find the elusive planet Mercury. • Mercury (Wikipedia) 4 Moon near Antares at 2h UT (28° from Sun, evening

2 Annular Solar Eclipse from 16:50 to 20:39 UT with greatest eclipse at 18:45 UT. Path of annularity extends across southern Chile and southern Argentina. Partial eclipse in the Pacific Ocean and southern South America. • Annular Solar Eclipse of 2024 October 2 (GIF) (NASA)