Category: The Sky Tonight
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …