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, September 1, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SUNDAY, AUGUST 31 ■ Now Antares and Delta Scorpii line up to the right of the Moon. The line points the same length the other way from the Moon to the spout of the Sagittarius Teapot. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 ■ September’s arrival means that Scorpius, that […]
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 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, 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, […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 16, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. MONDAY, JUNE 16 ■ Mars and Regulus shine closest together in the west this evening, as shown below. Tonight they’re 0.8° apart (for the Americas), about the width of a pencil held at arm’s length. This is a great time to compare their contrasting colors in […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 9, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SUNDAY, JUNE 8 ■ The nearly full Moon (it’ll be full on Tuesday night the 10th) shines well to the upper right of Antares this evening, as shown below. MONDAY, JUNE 9 ■ Bright Arcturus, magnitude 0, shines pale yellow-orange very high overhead toward the south […]
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 […]
