This Easter weekend, step outside on Good Friday evening, and treat yourself to a celestial spectacle. It’s not often we take a break to look up into our night sky. It’s something that’s missing in our busy lives. So, after sunset turn your attention...
The Seven Sisters or Pleiades is a beautiful open cluster of stars visible to the naked-eye. It does help if you’re in a dark sky location as it’s quite faint to see. Tonight, use bright Venus as your guide. Pleiades is at the same height from the horizon...
The Lyrids Meteor Shower is known for its fast and bright meteors, with occasional fireballs. Meteor showers are named after the constellation where the “shooting stars” appear to be coming from. In the case of the Lyrids, the meteors come from the direction of the...
Dawn on Anzac Day this year is extra special. If you regularly attend dawn services, you’ll know that the view of the stars and planets change from year to year. This year, there are three naked-eye planets visible in a celestial line up. A conjunction is where...
This is the month to view Saturn! The image above is for about 7pm in the early evening of 4th September. On this date, Saturn is at what is called “opposition” and means its closest to Earth for the year. It also means that this is the ideal time to view...
On this night, Mercury and Venus are the “stars” of the show! The pair of naked-eye planets appear on either side of a thin crescent Moon after sunset. Mercury is the planet above the Moon and Venus is below. If you turn around to look at the eastern...
Stargazers out enjoying the Orionids Meteor Shower might expect to see up to 20 meteors per hour. It is generated from Halley’s Comet. It’s a well-known comet that last graced our night sky in 1986. In December 2024, the comet began its nearly 40-year...
Will you be trick and treating this Halloween? If you are, Saturn will keep you company as you go from door to door. After the sun sets, keep an eye out for Saturn in the eastern evening sky. Help our younger trick or treaters identify the planet. In the image above,...
Have you been asking yourself….”What is that bright star I can see in the evening?” It’s not a star at all, it’s our neighbouring planet, Venus and it has been making a striking sight on the western horizon. On 23rd September and also on...
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