Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 1, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, February 1 Full Moon occurs at 5:09 P.M. EST, bringing the light of the February Snow Moon to our nighttime skies. This name may seem particularly apt, given the weather much of the U.S. has been experiencing as of late! The Snow Moon gains […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 18, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, January 18 New Moon occurs at 2:52 P.M. EST. The moonless sky this week is the perfect time to enjoy deep-sky observing; tonight our target is the open cluster NGC 7789. It is also called Caroline’s Rose for its discoverer, Caroline Herschel, who first […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, December 30, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Travel southeast from Capella to capture Auriga’s targets. The chart zooms in on the Happy Face asterism. Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly Sunday, December 28 Let’s keep the holiday joy going with a smile among the stars — tonight we’re tracking down the so-called Happy Face […]
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 7, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, December 7 The Moon passes 4° north of Jupiter in Gemini at 11 A.M. EST, after both have set. However, you can catch the pair in the evening sky; they rise a few hours after sunset, with Jupiter now leading the way above the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 15, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 ■ Altair is the bright star high towards the south in early evening. Find little Sagitta, the Arrow, barely a fist at arm’s length above it. Now imagine rotating the Arrow on its point a third of a turn counterclockwise. Its middle star […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 7, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 ■ Full Moon (exactly full at 2:09 p.m. EDT). Saturn follows about 8° or 10° behind it across the sky through the night. By no coincidence, Saturn is just two weeks from its own opposition: When you face the full Moon and Saturn […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 23, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SUNDAY, JUNE 22 ■ Late these evenings, look south-southeast to south for orange Antares, the Betelgeuse of summer. Both are 1st-magnitude “red” supergiants, which are actually more like bright orange. Around and upper right of Antares are the other, whiter stars of upper Scorpius forming their […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 19, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. MONDAY, MAY 19 ■ The brightest asteroid, 4 Vesta, is nicely placed in a moonless dark sky in late evening. It’s about two weeks past opposition and still about magnitude 6.0. It’s located 24° below Arcturus, near the Virgo-Libra border, and about 9° and 10° above Beta and […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 24, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. MONDAY, MARCH 24 ■ Many binocular observers check in on the 5th-magnitude open cluster M41 just 4° due south of Sirius. But how many then look the other way from Sirius for the open cluster M50? It’s 10° north-northeast from Sirius, dimmer, smaller and more subtle than […]
