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July
July is the month the summer Milky Way finally delivers. Sagittarius and Scorpius reach their highest point, and from a dark site …
4 published guides
Monthly sky
One page per month: the lunar phases set your dark windows, the planets tell you what to look at first, and the shower notes and night-by-night calendar turn that into a plan. Each guide publishes before its month begins.
| Month | Status | Highlights | Showers |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | scheduled | — | — |
| February | scheduled | — | — |
| March | scheduled | — | — |
| April | scheduled | — | — |
| May | scheduled | — | — |
| June | scheduled | — | — |
| July | Published | 5 | Delta Aquariids, Alpha Capricornids, Perseids |
| August | Published | 5 | Perseids, Kappa Cygnids |
| September | Published | 5 | September Epsilon Perseids |
| October | Published | 5 | Draconids, Orionids, Southern Taurids |
| November | scheduled | — | — |
| December | scheduled | — | — |
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August
August is the Perseid month and, for many observers, the best all-round month of the year: the summer Milky Way is still high, the…
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September
September is the pivot of the observing year. The summer Milky Way is still there in the west, the autumn galaxies are rising in t…
Monthly
October
October brings the autumn deep-sky fields to the meridian, the Orionids, and the return of the Pleiades. The nights are now long e…
Coming up
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