This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 26 – March 6
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 ■ Full Moon tonight (exactly so at 3:17 a.m. Saturday morning EST). It's under the belly of Leo. This evening through the moonlight, look for Regulus, …
Category: The Sky Tonight
This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 19 – 27
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19 ■ First-quarter Moon (exactly so at 1:47 p.m. EST). The Moon shines between Aldebaran and the Pleiades high this evening, as shown below. Every February, the …
A Deep-sky Hippity-hop through Lepus, the Hare
IC 418, also known as the Spirograph Nebula, is a tiny but bright planetary nebula in Lepus, the Hare. The white dwarf at its center streams ultraviolet light into …
This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 12 – 20
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12 ■ Orion stands his highest in the south by about 8 p.m., looking smaller than you probably remember him appearing early in the winter when he …
This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 5 – 13
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5 ■ Before and during early dawn on Saturday morning the 6th, spot the waning crescent Moon in the south-southeast with Antares some 4° or 5° to …