SUNSET: 
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.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, September 14 – 22
The Moon hangs over Antares at nightfall on September 15th, as shown above. Far left of the Moon are Saturn, then Mars. To the Moon's lower right shines Jupiter.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, September 7 – 15
Scorpius lies down in the south-southwest as night arrives. Its brightest star, Antares, appears about midway between Jupiter in Libra and Saturn in Sagittarius.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, August 31 – September 8
As twilight fades, spot Venus very low in the west-southwest. Upper right of it on September 1st, by just 1.3° is Spica, a 1st-magnitude star but less than 1% as bright as Venus. Can you see Spica naked-eye through the twilight?
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, August 24 – September 1
Friday, August 24 • For yet another week, four bright planets await your view at once as twilight fades. From right to left, they are Venus very low in the west-southwest, Jupiter in the southwest (upper left of Venus), Saturn in the south a little higher than Jupiter, and…
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, August 17 – 25
Lined up nearly vertically below the Moon August 18th are the stars marking the head of Scorpius. Lower left of the Moon is brighter Antares, an orange-red supergiant star. Farther left of the Moon are Saturn, then bright Mars.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, August 10 – 18
Tonight's Moon, stars and planets -- Sky & Telescope magazine's daily sky sights for the naked eye, binoculars and telescopes.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, August 3 – 11
Friday, August 3 • This week four bright planets shine at once during twilight, if you have low horizons in the right places. From right to left, they're Venus low in the west, Jupiter higher in the southwest, Saturn at about the same height in the south-southeast, and brilliant…
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, July 27 – August 4
Friday, July 27 • Full Moon (exact at 4:20 p.m. EDT). Full Moon is opposition Moon, so it shines with brilliant Mars, which is just a day past its opposition. Mars right now is 143 times farther from us than the Moon (and it's twice as large). Its surface…
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, July 20 – 28
Friday, July 20 • The waxing gibbous Moon shines over Jupiter this evening, as shown here. Left of Jupiter by just 2° is the wide binocular double star Alpha Librae, magnitudes 2.8 and 5.1. The Moon is 1.3 light-seconds distant from us, and Jupiter is 44 light-minutes in its…
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, July 13 – 21
Friday, July 13 • Cassiopeia is now well past its annual bottoming out due north. Look for its W pattern climbing low in the north-northeast after dark. The farther north you live, the higher it will be. Saturday, July 14 • As twilight fades, see if you can catch…
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, July 6 – 14
Friday, July 6 • As twilight fades, watch for Regulus coming into view 3½° to the left of Venus, as shown here. • After dark the central stars of the constellation Lyra, forming a small triangle and parallelogram, dangle to the lower right from bright Vega high in the…
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, June 29 – July 7
Friday, June 29 • The waning gibbous Moon rises in the east-southeast in late twilight. An hour later, watch for Mars to clear the horizon about a fist at arm's length to the Moon's lower right (for North America). Saturday, June 30 • By late evening the Moon and…
This Week's Sky at a Glance, June 22 – 30
Friday, June 22 • The waxing gibbous Moon this evening shines with bright Jupiter to its lower left and fainter Spica to its lower right. Saturday, June 23 • The bright "star" with the Moon tonight is Jupiter. Although they look rather close together, Jupiter is currently 1,800 times…
This Week's Sky at a Glance, June 15 – 23
Venus shines brightly in the west-northwest during twilight and just after. Jupiter shines high in the south.
