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Venus and fainter Mercury in twilight in the middle weeks of November 2024

This Week's Sky At a Glance

This Week's Sky at a Glance, November 8 – 17

The stars betray that we've tipped from the season of warm evenings to the cold (or at least crisp). And the Moon this week skims Saturn, then the Pleiades.

Catch the thin crescent Moon paired with Venus in Monday's twilight (Nov. 4, 2024)

This Week's Sky At a Glance

This Week's Sky at a Glance, November 1 – 10

The thin crescent Moon pairs beautifully with Venus low in Monday's twilight. And be on the lookout for any Taurid fireballs this week!

Venus and Antares in conjunction, Oct. 25, 2024

This Week's Sky At a Glance

This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 25 – November 3

Fading Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS poses high in a moonless sky for its fans with binoculars and telescopes, even as we wave farewell for at least a hundred thousand years, maybe forever. Meanwhile four brighter, more permanent members of the solar system await attention.

Venus, Antares and the head of Scorpius low in twilight, Oct. 18, 2024

This Week's Sky At a Glance

This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 18 – 27

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS fades and shrinks as it rises high into a darker sky. Venus passes Antares. The waning Moon passes the Pleiades, Jupiter, and Mars. Arcturus becomes the Ghost of Summer Suns.

Waxing gibbous Moon with Saturn at dusk, Oct. 13-14, 2024pass

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This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 11 – 20

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS enters its week of glory for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. Don't let any clear twilight slip by!

Waxing crescent Moon passing Venus and Antares in twilight, Oct 4-7, 2024

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This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 4 – 13

The waxing crescent Moon passes Venus, then Antares, in the western twilight. Several days later, Comet Tsuchinshan starts stealing the twilight show for everyone in the world's north temperate latitudes!

Waning crescent Moon passing Regulus in Leo, Sept 28-29, 2024

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This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 27 – October 6

On these moonless evenings, Cassiopeia shows some of its inner workings. The Circlet of Pisces offers a very red star next to a little-known cross. From Vega, Lyra points away from the head of Draco.

Moon passing Mars, Castor, Pollux, Sept 25-26, 2024

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This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 20 – 29

In this dark-of-the-Moon week, the Cygnus Milky Way crosses the zenith, and Arcturus, Capella, and Fomalhaut come to a certain balance.

Mars and Jupiter Sept 4, 2024, imaged by Sean Walker

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This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 13 – 22

The Moon occults Saturn before dawn on Tuesday morning, then the Moon skims the edge of Earth's shadow for a partial lunar eclipse that evening. Meanwhile, Jupiter and Mars shine in fine view late at night.

Crescent Moon, Venus and Spica low after sunset, Sept 6, 2024

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This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 6 – 15

The Moon starts the week low in twilight with Venus and Spica, then steps eastward past Antares and the Sagittarius Teapot. Meanwhile, the recurrent nova in Corona Borealis is still keeping us waiting.

Venus and Spica low in bright twilight, Aug 30, 2024

This Week's Sky At a Glance

This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 30 – September 8

Low in twilight, climbing Venus and descending Spica prepare to pass each other. After dark Vega crosses the zenith, and Scorpius beds down. Mercury shines at dawn.

Moon passing Aldebaran, Mars and Jupiter in early dawn, Aug 26-28, 2024

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This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 23 – September 1

We're in peak Milky Way season, and the evenings have become dark and moonless. Andromegasus is up. So is Saturn. Before dawn, the late-risen Moon passes over Jupiter and Mars.

Jupiter and Mars together before dawn, Aug. 17, 2024

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This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 16 – 25

Vega shines overhead as the zenith star at dusk. Jupiter and Mars are separating. When the Moon is just past full it poses next to Saturn — which, by no coincidence, is less than a month from opposition.

Jupiter and Mars closing in on each other before dawn, August 10, 2024

This Week's Sky At a Glance

This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 9 – 18

The Perseid meteor shower peaks late Sunday night August 11th and maybe Monday night too. Jupiter and Mars have a close conjunction on the morning of the 14th, looking radically different in the same telescopic view.

Jupiter and Mars nearing conjunction in the east before dawn, August 10, 2024

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This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 2 – 11

The Perseid meteors ramp up this week to their peak. Saturn is nicely up in the east by late evening. Jupiter and Mars near their conjunction in the morning sky. And there's a story behind Poniatowski's Bull.

Venus, Mercury and Regulus very low in the west in bright twilight, July 26, 2024

This Week's Sky At a Glance

This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 26 – August 4

Very low in the west in bright twilight, have you picked up Venus yet? Binoculars help. Much tougher will be Mercury and Regulus. Their arrangement changes all week.

Rasalhague (Alpha Ophiuchi) turns the Summer Triangle into a cut diamond.

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This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 19 – 28

Scorpius poses at center stage in the south. The Sagittarius Teapot follows behind it. And Rasalhague, the head star of Ophiuchus. turns the Summer Triangle into a big, upright diamond.

Regulus and Mercury in twilight, July 12, 2024

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This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 12 – 21

Mercury lurks in the sunset. The July Moon rides low across the sky this week as it waxes from first quarter to full. It occults springlike Spica, then passes summery Antares to hang with the Teapot.

Moon passing Regulus, July 7-9, 2024

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This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 4 – 14

The waxing Moon passes Regulus on its way to occulting Spica July 13th. The Kite of Boötes tilts toward the Dipper. And the largest asteroid is at opposition.

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This Week's Sky at a Glance, June 28 – July 7

It takes hardly more than a glance up these evenings to check for the anticipated eruption of T Coronae Borealis, the Blaze Star.