Venus has been a prominent early morning sight for several weeks. If you are an early-riser and look low toward east, you can’t miss it. It will be there until late summer or early fall. Less obvious in the same part of the sky are the planets Saturn and Mars. On 28 March 2022, the clear predawn sky even presented a thin crescent Moon below this grouping of those planets.
On successive mornings, Saturn and Mars approached closer to each other. This view on 3 April 2022 was photographed through a living room window. The green thing is a glass ornament. This was the only unobstructed viewpoint due to trees and rooftops.
It was a rainy morning on April 4. But, the sky was mostly clear on the 5th. Saturn and Mars were at their closest approach less than the diameter of a full moon.
Keep watching that part of the sky to the lower left of Venus. Jupiter will begin making an appearance. On 18 April 2022, these four planets will form a straight line like this.
How I See It 
It’s that big green planet that frightens me. Zombies?
My sister asked if it was an asteroid.
Good informative series of images. Thanks for keeping an eye on the morning sky for me!
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Very interesting how they just like up like that and great you can see them without the telescope. How often do all the planets line up? The green asteroid does look somewhat scary and VERY close! The third photo also looks like there is a pyramid close by. 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
They line up fairly often. Not always in close like it will be mid month. The green planet and flying pyramid do look threatening.
[…] several weeks, Venus and Mars and Saturn have been visible in the pre-dawn eastern sky. Today at 5:49 am, a very clear pre-dawn sky allowed a view low in the east to see if Jupiter was […]