The crescent moon is just 3 degrees below Jupiter, a beautiful spectacle in the dark skies. The King of Planets sets around 9 today. You will be able to view Jupiter with the naked eye tonight. And looking way ahead, on Dec. 1, the moon, Venus and Jupiter will all gather for a rare convergence that will be so tight, according to NASA, you’ll be able to blot all three objects out with your thumb held at arm’s length.

The crescent moon shines near Venus and Jupiter the next few evenings, the prelude to a more spectacular meeting at the end of November, when the two brilliant planets converge in the southwest.

At dusk, Venus is low in the south-southwest, about the same position it has maintained for the past two months. Jupiter also has had a long evening presence but has drifted noticeably westward and is now due south as darkness falls.

Tonight the moon’s thin crescent lies about 7 degrees east of Venus. Sunday night, the moon will lie halfway between the planets, at the top of the Teapot of Sagittarius (this star formation will be all but lost in the post-sunset glare by month’s end).

Note, however, that today, everything occurs an hour earlier, since Daylight Saving Time ended at 2 a.m. So while sunset occurred at 5:45 Saturday, it comes at 4:43 p.m. today.