Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 26, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, October 26 Saturn’s moon Iapetus reaches inferior conjunction tonight, sitting 1.3′ due north of Saturn and glowing at roughly 11th magnitude. This oft-elusive moon is easier to find when it is close to its parent planet, so give it a try tonight. Magnitude 0.7 […]
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, October 11, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Saturday, October 11 Last week, Io and Europa took a trip together across Jupiter, transiting the planet with their shadows. The moons’ resonant orbits mean similar events often repeat, and this morning is your chance to catch another one. Bright Jupiter stands high above the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 30, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Monday, September 29 First Quarter Moon occurs at 7:54 P.M. EDT, offering North American observers a chance to spot the so-called Maginus sunrise ray. Now in Sagittarius, the Moon remains above the horizon until close to midnight, offering several hours to watch the ray’s progress […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 21, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 ■ Fall begins today in the Northern Hemisphere at the moment of the equinox, 2:19 p.m. EDT (11:19 a.m. PDT). This is when the center of the Sun crosses Earth’s equator, and equivalently the celestial equator, in its six-month journey south from solstice […]
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 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, 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 […]
