Tag: Observing

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, June 20The summer solstice occurs at this evening ...

Back to Article List Now nearing a close conjunction, Saturn and Neptune sit just to the right of the crescent ...

Summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere on Friday, June 20, at 10:42 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. This annual event, known ...

Back to Article List Asteroid 4 Vesta reaches its stationary point in Virgo today. This bright main-belt world is easy ...

Back to Article List M22 is one of the brightest and nearest globular clusters to Earth, located near the top ...

Back to Article List The Red Planet stands less than a degree from Leo the Lion’s brightest star in the ...

Back to Article List The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) and its smaller companion NGC 5195 are excellent targets tonight before the ...

Back to Article List Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, also known as Schwassmann-Wachmann 1, glows at 13th magnitude near Leo’s forefoot early this ...

During the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, the shooting stars were upstaged by an auroral burst. The author captured ...

Mars passes close to Regulus in the sky this week. This image shows a previous meeting of the two, with ...