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This Week’s Sky at a Glance, February 1 – 9
Daily astronomical sights for the naked eye, binoculars, and telescopes, from Sky & Telescope magazine, the essential guide to astronomy.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, January 25 – February 2
Daily astronomical sights for the naked eye, binoculars, and telescopes, from Sky & Telescope magazine, the essential guide to astronomy.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, January 18 – 26
Friday, January 18 • Zero-magnitude Capella on high, and equally bright Rigel in Orion's foot, have almost the same right ascension. This means they cross your sky’s meridian at almost exactly the same time: around 9 or 10 p.m. now, depending on how far east or west you live…
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, January 11 – 19
Plan ahead for the total eclipse of the Moon over the Americas late on the night of Sunday the 20th. The eclipsed Moon will be high in a dark sky. See Bob King's Guide to January’s Supermoon Total Lunar Eclipse, or the cover story of the January Sky &…
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, January 4 – 12
Moon, stars, planets -- daily sights in the night sky for the naked eye, binoculars, and telescopes from Sky & Telescope magazine, the essential guide to astronomy.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, December 28 – January 5
Moon, stars, planets -- daily sights in the night sky for the naked eye, binoculars, and telescopes from Sky & Telescope magazine, the essential guide to astronomy.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, December 21 – 29
Moon, stars, planets -- daily sights in the night sky for the naked eye, binoculars, and telescopes from Sky & Telescope magazine, the essential guide to astronomy.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, December 14 – 22
Moon, stars, planets -- daily sights in the night sky for the naked eye, binoculars, and telescopes from Sky & Telescope magazine, the essential guide to astronomy.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, December 7 – 15
Orion comes into good view low in the east after dinnertime now. And that means Gemini is also coming up to its left.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, November 30– December 8
The moon, stars, planets, constellations -- sky sights every night for the naked eye, binoculars, or telescope.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, November 23 – December 1
The moon, stars, planets -- Sky sights for the naked eye, binoculars, or telescope every night.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, November 16 – 24
The moon, stars, planets -- Sky sights for the naked eye, binoculars, or telescopes every night.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, November 9 – 17
The "star" glowing upper left of the crescent Moon during and after dusk tonight (November 10) is Saturn, currently 4,075 times farther away. Far to its upper left, Mars shines brighter.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, November 2 – 10
Friday, November 2 • Look for Capella sparkling low in the northeast these evenings. About three fists at arm's length to Capella's right, look for the fingertip-sided Pleiades cluster. They're early markers of the cold months to come. Above the space between them are the stars of Perseus, astride the…
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, October 26 – November 3
Mars shines in the southern sky these evenings. Saturn glows lower in the southwest.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, October 19 – 27
Lots of sky sights this week: Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Orionid meteors, stars in balance, telescopic occultation by the asteroid Kleopatra, more.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, October 12 – 20
Mars and Saturn are the two planets of the evening sky this week, the brightest points of light in the south. The Moon passes them both.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, October 5 – 13
Vega is the brightest star very high in the west after nightfall in early autumn. Arcturus, equally bright, is getting low in the west-northwest.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, September 28 – October 6
Friday, September 28 • Late this evening, spot the little Pleiades cluster to the upper left of the Moon, as shown at right. When we see the Pleiades climb the eastern sky in autumn, their tiny dipper pattern stands on its handle. Saturday, September 29 • There's roughly a…
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, September 21 – 29
Mars, in southern Capricornus, fades from magnitude –1.5 to –1.3 this last week of September, still as bright as Sirius. It shines highest in the south soon after dark and sets around 2 a.m.
