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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.
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.
