Read on to find out what's up in the night sky tonight (planets visible now, moon phases, observing highlights this month) plus other resources (skywatching terms, night sky observing tips and further reading) You may like February new moon 2025: The young moon occults Mercury and passes...
Here's our stargazing guide to what you can see in the night sky tonight. Our guide is centred around what's visible from the UK, but all northern hemisphere observers should be able to use it, with the odd adjustment to stated times. In our guide, we use Universal Time (UT) and Br...
What is the obsession with the KP index? Some of the most frequently asked questions received by northern lights guides are, what is theKp indextonight? The Kp index is only 1, so is there any point in going out? What is the Kp index this evening? Let me stop you right there. Nearl...
Tonight I had a short session to get to the bottom of my Speers WALER 4.9mm eyepiece. I don't trust it... Why isn't it sharp? Pointing my Zenithstar 66 at Almach revealed the problem - instead of points of light, the stars were smeared into little spectrums. Changing to Capella ...
What’s the brightest star you can see in the sky tonight? If you live below 83 degrees north latitude, the brightest star in the sky is Canis Alpha Majoris, orSirius. Seriously, (bad pun intended) the -1st magnitude star is usually the fifth brightest natural object in the sky, and ...
What it says about you:Really? You know the Waterman? Have you seen the 1909 Cahill Map it’s based— …You have a framed reproduction at home?! Whoa. …Listen, forget these questions. Are you doing anything tonight? Summary: The arrangement is an unfolding of a globe treated as a tru...
See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2025.
Jupiter looked very big and bright tonight. I saw a number of satellites and two meteors, but in the hour and a half I was observing, none of the satellites or meteors came close to the brightness of Jupiter. Jupiter won the brightness contest by a mile (there was no moon visible eithe...
A few photos from last night'sHasegawa and AIMS 1/32 scale Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-5 by Tolga Ulgurwere not visible owing to a technical fault. I have fixed this now so the whole Gallery may be seen. 14 January, 2025 Tonight I reviewModelu's WWII RAF Ground Crew Inspection figures. ...
The nearest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri: it is 4.24 light years away. This means the light from Proxima Centauri takes about 4 years and 3 months to reach us. By contrast, light reflected from Saturn—the farthest of the planets visible with the naked eye—takes only about 1 hour ...