This weekend is a skywatcher’s joy as the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower occurs Saturday and Sunday nights, accompanied by a stunning late night planetary pairing of Mars and Jupiter. If the ...

June’s night skies provide excellent opportunities to discover a slice of the evening sky that is largely unsung, unheralded and usually ignored. Daniel Zantzinger / Skywatcher's Guide When, for ...

If you’re a skywatcher intrepid enough to brave these cold December nights, then you already know that this often lonely pursuit is quite bracing, yet truly inspiring. Daniel Zantzinger (Skywatcher's ...

July’s night skies are legendary for their sheer abundance of celestial objects such as immense star clouds, light and dark nebulae, crowded clusters and oddities. Daniel Zantzinger / Skywatcher's ...

October nights are famed for their ghastly Halloween frights, yet the skies in fact bring rather friendly and benign apparitions. Constellation Pegasus, the well-known mythological flying horse who ...