Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 25, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. MONDAY, AUGUST 25 ■ While twilight is still fairly bright, can you catch the very thin Moon, not quite two days old, very low in the west-southwest? Bring binoculars. The Moon can help guide you to increasingly elusive Spica and Mars, as shown below. For a […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 18, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. MONDAY, AUGUST 18 ■ Titan casts its shadow on Saturn tonight. Every 15 years, Saturn’s largest moon repeatedly crosses Saturn’s face from Earth’s viewpoint — and, more visibly, casts its very tiny black shadow onto Saturn’ face. A series of these events is now under way. They will […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 11, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. MONDAY, AUGUST 11 ■ Venus and Jupiter shine in conjunction, just 0.9° apart, in the east during early dawn Tuesday morning the 12th. In fact, they rise about an hour before dawn even begins if you have a good flat horizon to the east-northeast. Brilliant celestial cat’s eyes […]
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 […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 28, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SUNDAY, JULY 27 ■ Use the low crescent Moon to guide you to Mars and Denebola in the fading twilight this evening, as shown below. At dusk across four days, the waxing crescent Moon moves from lower right of Mars to much closer lower right of […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 21, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. The waning crescent Moon in the dawn passes Venus, then Jupiter. Look before or during early dawn, while the sky is still pretty dark, to spot the horntips of Taurus a well as the rest of Taurus off the frame to the upper right. MONDAY, JULY […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 14, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SUNDAY JULY 13 ■ Scorpius is sometimes called “the Orion of Summer” for its brightness, its 1st-magnitude red supergiant star, and its many blue-white giants. But Scorpius passes a lot lower across the southern sky than Orion does. So for those of us at mid-northern latitudes […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 8, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. The bright Moon crosses Scorpius and the Sagittarius Teapot for four nights. MONDAY, JULY 7 ■ To casual starwatchers or those with an obstructed northern view, Cassiopeia in July might sound as wrong as Christmas in July. But already Cas has passed its lowest evening position […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 2, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher If the Trump Administration cancels the Gateway small lunar orbiting manned space station, a key project the U.S.-led Artemis Program for lunar exploration, will China take advantage and launch its own “Sino-Gateway” that could greatly enhance China’s strategic position in the Earth Moon system? The […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 30, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. MONDAY, JUNE 30 ■ After nightfall, look due south for orange Antares nearly on the meridian. Around and upper right of Antares are the other, whiter stars forming the distinctive pattern of upper Scorpius. The rest of the Scorpion runs down from Antares toward the horizon, […]
