Celestial dawn planet view to see

     The past few mornings we have been treated to the unusual alignment of 3 planets with the moon.  The picture above was taken this morning to show this alignment in the pre-dawn sky.  The small dot closest to the Moon is Mars, moving right is the dot of Saturn and farthest right and the brightest is Jupiter.  This alignment will be moving over the next few days but still visible in the pre-dawn sky.  If you look at the picture so that the planets are completely horizontal in your view you can see the 23.5-degree tilt angle of the Earth on our axis.