I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a seven-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

M36 lies about halfway between them. Let’s start at M37, a magnitude 6.2 cluster that spans about 24’, or half the width of the Full Moon. It’s the brightest of the three and also contains ...

Today is the date Venus is predicted to reach dichotomy, when its face appears exactly half-lit from Earth ... s largest and brightest moon, mid-8th-magnitude Titan, located some 40” from ...

You can see how all the planets are generally on one half of our system ... see objects down to a magnitude of positive 26 or 27. We get this question a lot: Why is the moon not in your illustration?