Special to CosmicTribune.com, November 1, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Sky & Telescope.com report. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1 ■ The Moon, half a day past last quarter, rises around 11 or midnight standard time, closely accompanied by Mars. By the beginning of dawn Monday morning in North America, the Moon will be just 1° or 2° from Mars […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 18, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Sky & Telescope.com report. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 ■ First-quarter Moon (exact at 12:13 p.m. EDT). The Moon shines in the south-southwest this evening. It’s just a day past apogee; can you reliably detect that it’s just a bit smaller than average? ■ Spot Altair about three fists […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 26, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, July 26 Asteroid 3 Juno reaches opposition at 1 P.M. EDT. Already above the horizon at sunset and visible all night, Juno glows at 9th magnitude in the constellation Aquila the Eagle. The Moon is nearby, now contained within the lid of Sagittarius’ Teapot. […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 4, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, May 3 Venus officially passes 7° north of Aldebaran at 3 A.M. EDT this morning. But the bigger story occurs late tonight, as the Moon rises around 10:30 P.M. local daylight time in northwestern Scorpius and passes 0.5° south of Alpha (α) Scorpii, better […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 4, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Saturday, January 3 Full Moon now officially occurs at 5:30 A.M. EST. The January Full Moon is also known as the Wolf Moon. This month’s Full Moon is also a Super Moon — a Full Moon that occurs while our satellite is near perigee, the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, December 21, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, December 21 The winter solstice occurs today at 10:03 A.M. EST. This marks the beginning of astronomical winter in the Northern Hemisphere and astronomical summer in the Southern Hemisphere. (Note that meteorological winter began December 1st, so you may have already heard news outlets […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, December 15, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, December 14 The Geminid meteor shower peaks today with a waning Moon in the sky. Widely regarded as the best meteor shower of the year, the Geminids will produce more than 100 meteors per hour during its peak. Although you may not see quite […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, November 16, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, November 16 Saturn’s moon Iapetus reaches western elongation today, when it is at its brightest. Now around 10th magnitude, you can find Iapetus some 10’ west of Saturn. The ringed planet is already above the horizon as the Sun sets; two hours later it […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 19, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, October 19 The Moon and Venus hang close together in the predawn sky, sharing the sky in the constellation Virgo. An hour before sunrise, look east to spot Venus, the brightest point of light, blazing at magnitude –3.9 nearly 7° above the horizon and […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 4, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 ■ This evening the waxing gibbous Moon hangs hardly more than 1° below orange Antares, the 1st-magnitude heart of Scorpius. MONDAY AUGUST 4 ■ Now the thickening, brightening gibbous Moon shines midway between Antares to its right and the spout of the Sagittarius […]
