Sky Report 2026 August 8 – August 15
You can see a few meteors per hour on any night in a clear, dark sky, but the number increases greatly when Earth passes through a trail of pebbles and dust left... Read more.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance July 25 – August 1
After twilight look low in the south for orange Antares in the heart of Scorpius. High above the scorpion is a large house-shaped constellation called Ophiuchus... Read more.
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, July 18 – July 25
They say it is the little things that count, and if you are counting constellations there are four little ones lined up in the southeast toward late evening. Start... Read more.
Sky Report 2026 July 4 – July 11
Galaxies are favourite targets for amateur astronomers and many are visible with just binoculars. Two are seen easily with the naked eye in the southern hemisphere:... Read more.
Sky Report 2026 June 13 – June 20
Arrows are used in signs as pointers to direct us to notable sites. As the Summer Triangle of the bright stars Vega, Deneb and Altair rise high in late evening,... Read more.
Sky Report 2026 May 30 – June 6
Arcturus and Vega, the fourth and fifth brightest stars of the night sky, are seen high above in evening twilight. I use them to locate the constellation Hercules,... Read more.
Sky Report 2026 May 23 – May 30
When Charley Pride sang “Snakes Crawl at Night” he wasn’t talking about the constellations but he might as well have been. When twilight gives way to darkness... Read more.
Sky Report 2026 May 16 – May 23
By 10 pm the zigzag constellation of Draco the Dragon is halfway up the northeastern sky to the right of the Little Dipper. Draco’s tail is a line of stars between... Read more.
Sky Report 2026 May 9 – May 16
With Mother’s Day occurring this weekend, here is a tale of a mother who went through hell to recover her abducted daughter. The constellation Virgo represents... Read more.
Sky at a Glance, 2026 May 2 – May 9
In the second century BCE the Greek astronomer Hipparchus of Nicaea ranked the stars according to their brightness in six categories called magnitudes (for greatness).... Read more.