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This Week's Sky at a Glance, January 9 – 17
Daily sky sights among the ever-changing Moon, planets, and stars.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, January 2 – 10
Daily sky sights among the ever-changing Moon, planets, and stars.
Binocular Comet Lovejoy Heading Our Way
A new Comet Lovejoy, C/2014 Q2, is heading our way. It may brighten to 5th magnitude from late December through much of January as it climbs into excellent viewing position for the Northern Hemisphere, high in the dark winter sky.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, Dec. 26 – Jan. 3
Some daily sky sights among the ever-changing Moon, planets, and stars, from Sky & Telescope.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, December 19 – 27
Some daily sky sights among the ever-changing Moon, planets, and stars. Friday, December 19 Have you ever tried to catch Sirius actually rising? If you can find a good view down to the east-southeast horizon, watch for Sirius emerging about two fists at arm's length below Orion's Belt. It now…
This Week's Sky at a Glance, December 12 – 20
Some daily sky sights among the ever-changing Moon, planets, and stars. Friday, December 12 This is the time of year when, around 8 or 9 p.m., Cassiopeia stands very high in the north as a flattened letter M. When will you see it perfectly level? This mostly depends on how…
This Week's Sky at a Glance, December 5 – 13
Some daily sky sights among the ever-changing Moon, planets, and stars. Friday, December 5 The Moon is essentially full this evening and Saturday evening both (it's exactly full at 7:27 a.m. Saturday morning EST.) On Friday evening in the Americas, look for Aldebaran less than about 2° from the Moon.…
This Week's Sky at a Glance, Nov. 28 – Dec. 6
Some daily sky sights among the ever-changing Moon, planets, and stars. Friday, November 28 First-quarter Moon (exactly first-quarter at 5:06 a.m. Saturday morning EST). Look this evening for Fomalhaut far to the Moon's lower left, and for Enif, the nose of Pegasus, almost as far to the Moon's upper right.…
This Week's Sky at a Glance, November 14 – 22
Some daily sky sights among the ever-changing Moon, planets, and stars. Friday, November 14 Keep an eye on little Mars in the southwest at dusk. It will keep hanging in there month after month through this winter, as constellations of the zodiac slide behind it. Last-quarter Moon (exact at 10:16…
This Week's Sky at a Glance, Oct. 31 – Nov. 8
Sky & Telescope's weekly celestial events calendar, with sky views, charts, and selected astronomy sights for your unaided eyes, binoculars, or a telescope.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 24 – November 1
Some daily sky sights among the ever-changing stars and planets The monster sunspot continues in view; see "This Week's Planet Roundup" below. Friday, October 24 As the stars come out, Deneb is nearly straight overhead for skywatchers at mid-northern latitudes. Brighter Vega is west of the zenith. Altair is farther…
This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 17 – 25
Some daily sky sights among the ever-changing stars and planets Monster sunspot alert — see "This Week's Planet Roundup" below. Friday, October 17 Before dawn Saturday morning, Jupiter shines above the waning Moon, as shown at right. Although they look rather close together, Jupiter is 2,100 times farther in the…
This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 10 – 18
Some daily sky sights among the ever-changing stars, Moon, and planets.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 3 – 11
Some daily celestial sights among the ever-changing stars and planets Friday, October 3 As evening twilight fades away, look very far to the lower left of the Moon for Fomalhaut, the Autumn Star, already climbing up from the southeast horizon. Saturday, October 4 The W pattern of Cassiopeia stands vertically…
This Week's Sky at a Glance, Sept. 26 – Oct. 4
Mars shines above Antares in the southwest at dusk this week.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 19–27
Arcturus is the bright star fairly high due west at nightfall. It's an orange giant 37 light-years away. Off to its right in the northwest is the Big Dipper, most of whose stars are about 80 light-years away.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 12–20
Follow the lineup of Saturn, Mars, and Antares as it changes day by day.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 5 – 13
Friday, September 5 Saturn, Mars, Delta (δ) Scorpii, and Antares form an equally-spaced ragged line in the southwest at dusk, as shown at right. Delta Scorpii used to be a bit dimmer than Beta above it. Then in July 2000 it doubled in brightness. It has remained bright, with slow…
This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 22 – 30
Friday, August 22 Altair is the brightest star shining halfway up the southeastern sky after nightfall. Look to its left, by a little more than a fist at arm's length, for the dim but distinctive constellation Delphinus, the Dolphin. He's leaping leftward, just below the Milky Way. In Saturday's dawn,…
This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 15 – 23
Jupiter and Venus join together in the dawn sky, while Vega bejewels the zenith and the Milky Way's center reaches its highest in the south.
