This is the last chance to catch the pair in conjunction this year—with Venus set to be unusually bright in the night sky.

To find it, draw a line from Saturn through Jupiter ... Meanwhile, the now 9%-lit waning crescent Moon will be closer to the horizon and to Jupiter. The inevitable consequence of that waning ...

With each passing night as, the crescent slowly widens and it begins to appear against a progressively darker background, its ...

As the moon moves through its various stages, it experiences several phases of partial light. These range from a banana-shaped crescent moon, a D-shaped quarter moon and a nearly full gibbous moon.

A remarkable sight will appear in the southwestern sky an hour after sunset Saturday evening when Venus appears very close to a thin crescent moon.