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Anthony Wood

See a razor-thin crescent moon shine with Saturn after sunset on Feb. 19

A crescent moon is pictured in a dark blue sky with the dark silhouettes of trees below.

Turn your eyes to the western sky at sunset on Feb. 19 to catch a delicate sight, as the razor-thin form of the two-day-old crescent moon sidles up to the gas giant Saturn in the evening sky.

The 10%-lit waxing crescent moon will be easy to miss as it hangs low on the western horizon at sundown, with Saturn appearing as a bright "evening star" less than 5 degrees — roughly the width of your three middle fingers held at arm's length — to the lower left of Earth's natural satellite.

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