This Week’s Sky at a Glance, October 21 – 29

A planet-laden panorama.
Friday, October 21
• Saturn and Antares form a compact right triangle with bright Venus, low in the southwest at dusk as shown above. The triangle will narrow every day as, Venus moves toward the upper left.
• The modest Orionid meteor shower should continue before dawn Saturday, but the light of the last-quarter Moon interferes.
Saturday, October 22
• Capella sparkles low in the northeast these evenings. Look for the Pleiades cluster off to its right, by