Jupiter

06:30 GMT on 17 February

Constellation: Sagittarius

Magnitude: -1.9

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Although it won’t be as obvious to the eye as it was a few months ago, this will still be another good month for Jupiterspotters, with the largest planet in our Solar System visible to the naked eye as a ‘morning star’ low in the east before sunrise, sandwiched between much fainter Saturn on its left and fainter Mars on its right. Shining at magnitude -1.9, Jupiter will be brighter than the brightest star in the sky, and brighter than any other planet except Venus. As the month changes it will rise in the southeast an hour before the Sun and after that will move further from it each day.