
Saturn shines markedly brighter than the 1st-magnitude bluish-white star Fomalhaut, which sparkles 20 degrees to the lower left. The ringed world is an easy and obvious sight in the evening sky a bright yellow-white starlike object in the southeast at nightfall and in the south during the mid-to-late evening. Saturn appears a half dozen degrees to the moon's upper right on the evening of Oct. (Image credit: Starry Night Software) (opens in new tab) Saturn's rings are now about as open as we'll see them until 2027. Related: Best telescopes for seeing planets 2022 Jupiter

This month, as the distance from Mars decreases from 73 to 58 million miles (117 to 93 million km), it nearly doubles in brightness from magnitude minus 0.6 to minus 1.2, as we hurtle toward it at an average speed of 5.5 miles (8.8 km) per second. Throughout October Mars is positioned between the horns of Taurus the Bull about 10 to 15 degrees to the northeast of Aldebaran, which it greatly outshines, with the Pleiades looking on. But at the end of the month, it rises at around 8:25 p.m. local daylight time at the beginning of October and gets 30 degrees up, high enough for excellent observing, around 1 a.m. It rises well north of east around 10 p.m. The Red Planet is the planetary superstar this fall, but we still have to wait up a bit for it. Mars will be located about 3 degrees to the moon's lower right.

Mars shining with a brilliant fiery orange light will be readily visible as the waning gibbous moon rises during the late evening hours of Oct. Sunset time varies during the year and is dictated by the viewer's location on Earth, which is defined by altitude, longitudes and latitudes and also by the time zone.Mars will continue to gain in brilliance from now through early December. Sunset is the regular lowering of the Sun underneath the horizon caused by the rotation of the Earth. Note: Sunset, also regarded as sundown, is the polar opposite of a sunrise. Therefore the sunrise is first seen in India by Arunachal Pradesh at Dong, while sun rises last at Gujarat in Guhar Moti. Here the sun rises at around 7.20 am during the winters, making it more than an hour later than sunrise experienced at Dong. This makes Guhar Moti the last place to experience a sunrise as compared to other states and places in India. Similarly, Guhar Moti in Gujarat is situated on India’s westernmost end since its coordinates are 23.6352°N 68.5424☎. This happens to be about an hour earlier than it does elsewhere within different parts of India. That is why it is referred to as "India's Land of the Rising Sun." In Dong, during the winter season, the sun begins to rise at around 5.54 a.m. Dong was discovered to have seen the first sunrise in India in 1999. The sunrise is first seen in India in the small town of Dong in the Anjaw district of the state Arunachal Pradesh. The coordinates of Dong are 28.1702° N, 97.0417° E, so clearly India’s easternmost end lies in Dong of Arunachal Pradesh. Later on the western end of India too experiences sunrise, but compared to other places the west experiences the last sunrise. Since our earth is continuously rotating and it spins from west to east, naturally in a vast country like India, India's eastern most part will experience the first sunrise.

In general, the sunrise is said to happen first in the east and the sunset is assumed to happen first in the west. In India every state experiences sunrise at different times depending on the position of each place. It is the complete sequence that shows the solar disk approaching the horizon and even the atmospheric effects that follow it.

Hint: Sunrise is that time in the morning when we see the upper edge of the sun emerge onto the horizon.
