Friday, March 10, 2023

Today: Looking to the west-northwest this evening near 7:00 PM, a vertical string of three moderately bright stars marks the constellation Andromeda. From the middle star, look for two fainter stars to its right, and then a smudge of light. This is the Andromeda...

Thursday, March 09, 2023

Today: The dark, moonless evenings feature the brightest section of the Milky Way due south near 10:00 PM. We are viewing into the heart of our galaxy, where the density of stars is estimated to be up to one million times more dense than our skies, 25 thousand light...

Thursday, March 9, 2023

You can watch the waning Gibbous Moon lift into the east this evening just before 8:30, followed an hour later by a fairly bright, bluish-white star called Spica, the only bright star in Virgo. Through the night they progress west, cresting due south near 2 AM, and...

Thursday, March 09, 2023

Today: You can watch the waning Gibbous Moon lift into the east this evening just before 8:30, followed an hour later by a fairly bright, bluish-white star called Spica, the only bright star in Virgo. Through the night they progress west, cresting due south near 2 AM,...

Wednesday, March 08, 2023

Today: As the clock strikes midnight, waning Moon climbs into the east-northeast, well left of its companion last night, Jupiter. As the Moon climbs higher in the hours after midnight, take note of the patch of faint stars to its left, known as the Seven Sisters, or...

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Leo the Lion climbs higher into the evening skies, with its bright star, Regulus, the “heart” of Leo, nearly half way up in the east-southeast by 8:30 PM. Regulus appears to be younger than it really is. A companion dwarf star appears to be supplying it...