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This Week’s Sky at a Glance, March 8 – 16
Mars (magnitude +1.2, in Aries) glows high in the west at nightfall and sets by 11 p.m. In a telescope it's a tiny blob 5 arcseconds wide.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, March 1 – 9
Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn all rise before dawn. As dawn gets under way, Jupiter and Venus, the brightest, dominate the low southeast. Saturn is between them.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, February 22 – March 2
Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn all rise before dawn. As dawn gets under way, Jupiter and Venus, the brightest, dominate the low southeast.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, February 15 – 23
The Moon is in the feet of Gemini this evening. Castor and Pollux are to its left, Procyon is to its lower left, and Orion is to its lower right.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, February 8 – 16
Comet Iwamoto is 7th magnitude this week as it crosses Leo and Cancer high in the late-night sky. See Bob King's Comet Iwamoto Ascends and Brightens, with finder chart. Friday, February 8 • The waxing crescent Moon shines in the west-southwest at nightfall. Above it by about two fists…
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.
