Image Credit & Copyright: Arnaud Mariat
Explanation:
Dawn's early light came to Montreal,
northern planet Earth, on March 18, the day before
the vernal equinox.
At the end of that
nearly equal night
the Moon stands
above a dense constellation of urban lights in this
serene city and skyscape.
Of course the Moon's waning crescent faces toward the rising Sun.
Skygazers could easily spot bright Jupiter just above the Moon,
close on the sky to a fainter Mars.
Saturn, a telescopic favorite, is just a pinprick
of light below and farther left of the closer conjunction of
Moon, Jupiter and Mars.
Near the ecliptic, even Mercury is rising
along a line extended to the horizon from Jupiter and Saturn.
The elusive inner planet is very close to the horizon though,
and not quite visible in
this morning's sky.
