SUNSET: 
This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 20 – 28
Look northeast in the starry sky these evenings. Capella shines low and brightest. Upper right of Capella, and upper left of the Pleiades, the stars of Perseus stand astride the Milky Way.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 13 – 21
Want to become an amateur astronomer? First, learn your way around the constellations! They're the key to locating everything fainter and deeper to hunt with binoculars or a telescope.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 6 – 14
Want to become an amateur astronomer? Learn your way around the constellations! They're the key to locating everything fainter and deeper to hunt with binoculars or a telescope.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 29 – October 7
Sky at a Glance, Friday, September 29 -- As the stars come out in late twilight, look high above the Moon for Altair.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 22 – 30
Friday, September 22 • Low in the west-southwest during twilight, spot the thin waxing crescent Moon. Can you see Jupiter to the lower right of it, by about 7°? (for North America.) • Equinox: Autumn begins in the Northern Hemisphere, and spring in the Southern Hemisphere, at 4:02 p.m.…
This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 15 – 23
Saturn (magnitude +0.4, in Ophiuchus above Scorpius) glows in the south-southwest at dusk. Antares twinkles 13° to Saturn's lower right.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 8 – 16
Mercury and Mars are passing each other very low in the glow of sunrise, well to the lower left of Venus. Regulus is also with them, as shown in sky scenes here.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 1 – 9
The waxing gibbous Moon is appears equally distant from Saturn, well to its right, and Altair, high to its upper left.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 25 – September 2
Look low in the west in twilight for the waxing crescent Moon. It forms a triangle with Jupiter and Spica below it.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 18 – 26
The Milky Way runs from Sagittarius in the south, up and left across Aquila and the Summer Triangle very high in the east, and down through Cassiopeia to Perseus low in the north-northeast.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 11 – 19
The Perseid meteor shower should be at its maximum late Friday and Saturday nights, August 11-12 and 12-13.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 4 – 12
Saturn glows in the south at nightfall. Fiery Antares, less bright, twinkles 13° to Saturn's lower right.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 28 – August 5
The Sagittarius Teapot is in the south after darkness is complete.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 21– 29
Starry Scorpius is sometimes called "the Orion of Summer" for its brightness and its prominent red supergiant (Antares in the case of Scorpius, Betelgeuse for Orion). Catch Scorpius due south just after dark now. It's full of deep-sky objects for binoculars or a telescope
This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 14 – 22
Mercury is having a poor apparition low in evening twilight this month. But it's bright enough (magnitude –0.2 this evening) that you can pick it up anyway if the air is good and clear.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 7 – 15
The full Moon is low in the southeast as the stars come out Saturday evening. Look far to the Moon's upper left for Altair, and far to the Moon's upper right for Saturn.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, June 30 – July 8
The Moon forms a broad triangle with Jupiter and Spica in the southwestern sky during twilight and nightfall on July 1, 2017.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, June 23 – July 1
This is the time of year when the two brightest stars of summer, Arcturus and Vega, are equally high overhead soon after dark: Arcturus in the southwest, Vega toward the east.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, June 16 – 24
The term "Midsummer's Night" is left over from when the seasons were commonly defined as beginning and ending around the cross-quarter days.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, June 9 – 17
For an easy-to-use constellation guide covering the whole evening sky, use the big monthly map in the center of each issue of Sky & Telescope, the essential guide to astronomy.
