A total lunar eclipse (May 26) if you’re lucky, a great apparition of Mercury, and all the naked-eye planets visible make May of 2021 an action-packed month.

May 3rd – 5th – Close Encounter – Moon, Saturn, Jupiter – Before sunrise in the SE, between 3:30am and 6am EDT on these mornings, a beautiful crescent Moon will be passing by our two biggest gas planets.  On the 3rd, the Moon will be down and to the right of Saturn. On the next morning (the 4th) the Moon under and between Jupiter and Saturn, making a great triangle.  Then on the 5th, the crescent Moon hangs out just 7˚ below and to the left of Jupiter.

 

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