What's Up in the Sky
Follow the links below to find out what's visible in the night sky tonight and in the coming days, weeks, and months. These resources will help you learn the constellations, know the dates of this month's Moon phases, identify bright stars and planets, prepare for the next eclipse or meteor shower, and improve your observing skills.
This Week's Sky at a Glance
An illustrated night-by-night guide to the bright stars and planets you can see at dusk and dawn, as well as to their close pairings with the Moon and with each other. From the editors of Sky & Telescope magazine.
Astronomy Central
Enter your location and get customized tables of sunrise/sunset and moonrise/moonset times along with Moon phases and animated views of tonight’s sky. Find out if upcoming solar or lunar eclipses are visible from your location and prepare for the next major meteor shower. From timeanddate.com.
Sky Event Almanacs
Choose your time zone and click on a year to get a celestial almanac for that year listing Moon phases, equinoxes and solstices, conjunctions of the Moon with bright stars and planets, meteor showers, solar and lunar eclipses, and more. From Fred Espenak at astropixels.com.
Stellarium
A full-featured, browser-based desktop planetarium showing what the night sky looks like from any location at any time. Use it to learn the constellations, find and identify the planets, locate deep-sky objects, and more. From Fabien Chéreau and colleagues.
Skywatching
Tips, guides (including an interactive Moon map), activities, and videos for skywatchers, from NASA. The What's Up video series of monthly stargazing tips is the space agency's longest-running web video series.
Space Weather
Has the Sun been flaring? Has it launched a coronal mass ejection toward Earth? Might the aurora borealis ("northern lights") appear in mid-latitude skies? Find out from Spaceweather.com, featuring news and information about the Sun-Earth environment. From Tony Phillips.
Heavens Above
Specify your location and get tables and charts showing when and where to look to see the International Space Station, Starlink trains, and other bright satellites flying overhead. Create a free account and log in to save your location. From Chris Peat.
Astrospheric
For any location, get an astronomer's weather forecast for the next few nights. In addition to temperatures, cloudiness, and other features of regular weather forecasts, you'll also see predictions for how transparent the sky will be and how steady the air will be (what astronomers call "seeing"). From Astrospheric LLC.