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1. People can see Jupiter in the pre-dawn hours and dawn in the southeast or south sky
Fri May 8, 2020, 05:59 AM
May 2020

it's a very bright white steady "star", magnitude -2.4, which is significantly brighter than even the brightest star anywhere in the sky.

To its east a very short distance (about a degree or two) is Saturn -- much less bright) and then further southeast another about 10 degrees is Mars.

The sky at your time and location (or any date, time, location)
https://in-the-sky.org/skymap2.php

below and to the left of the sky circle is a "Display" box - uncheck the "Deep Sky" to get rid of the clutter that you probably can't see unless you live 50 miles from the nearest streetlamp.

For evening people, Venus is visible after sunset in the western or northwestern sky near the horizon -- a super-bright steady white light (magnitude -4.5 -- unintuitively, the more negative the magnitude, the brighter it is).

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