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 25, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Sky & Telescope.com report. ■ Saturn shines lower left of the Moon at dusk, as shown below. ■ This is the time of year when the Big Dipper lies down horizontal low in the north-northwest after dark. And the farther south you are the lower it is. […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 11, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Sky & Telescope.com report. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 ■ As October proceeds, Deneb slowly replaces Vega as the zenith star of early evening (for skywatchers at mid-northern latitudes). Accordingly, dim Capricornus has replaced Sagittarius as the zodiacal constellation having its best display in the south. MONDAY, OCTOBER 12 […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 5, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Sky & Telescope.com report. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4 ■ Vega is the brightest star very high in the west at nightfall. Arcturus, equally bright, is getting low in the west-northwest. The brightest star in the vast expanse between them, about a third of the way from Arcturus up […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 17, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Oxon Hill, MD — In Sept. 15 remarks before the Air Cyber Space Conference of the United States Air Force Association, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Jared Isaacman described aspects of the lunar space race with China and the importance for the U.S. […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 9, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, August 9 The Moon passes 4° north of Mars at 2 A.M. EDT; the pair is visible together in the early-morning sky, some 30° high in the east an hour before sunrise. They straddle the border of Gemini and Taurus, to the upper left […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 2, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, August 2 Mercury reaches its greatest western elongation at 4 A.M. EDT, standing 19° from the Sun. The tiny planet reaches an altitude of almost 5° above the eastern horizon an hour before sunrise, glowing at magnitude 0.2. Over to the far right of […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 16, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The video showed the big rocket’s first stage in recovery, then a huge crowd of people erupt in cheers — it was all very SpaceX-like — but only this video was of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation’s (CASC) July 10 first launch and […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 5, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Sky & Telescope.com report. SUNDAY, JULY 5 ■ And while you’re doing globulars, here’s a rather different one. Explore the area around Antares using Matt’s column and chart in the June 2026 Sky & Telescope, page 43. In Antares’s binocular field is M4, bigger and closer to us but […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 1, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher While China has been considering the problems of asteroid defense since at least about 2020, there may now be real plans for the construction of a Chinese planetary defense capability — with inherit dual-use dangers. On June 30, Chinese state television CCTV featured an official […]
