On Wednesday evening (April 22), assuming your skies are reasonably clear, you can finish your day by stepping outside and enjoying a view of a rendezvous of two of the brightest objects in the night sky: the moon and the planet Jupiter. About 45 minutes after the sun sets, the eye-catching celestial duo will be visible in the western sky, roughly two-thirds up from the horizon to the point directly overhead (called the zenith).
The moon, which will be one day from reaching first quarter phase — 38% illuminated by the sun — will be situated above and to the right of Jupiter, about 3 degrees away.
